ERYTHROPOIETIN-INDUCED RECURRENT VENOOCCLUSIVE PRIAPISM ASSOCIATED WITH END-STAGE RENAL-DISEASE

Authors
BROWN JA NEHRA A
Citation
Ja. Brown et A. Nehra, ERYTHROPOIETIN-INDUCED RECURRENT VENOOCCLUSIVE PRIAPISM ASSOCIATED WITH END-STAGE RENAL-DISEASE, Urology, 52(2), 1998, pp. 328-330
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Urology & Nephrology
Journal title
Urology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00904295
Volume
52
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
328 - 330
Database
ISI
SICI code
0090-4295(1998)52:2<328:ERVPAW>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
This is the first report of a male hemodialysis patient experiencing r ecurrent dialysis-associated priapism that resolved when his concurren t erythropoietin dose was reduced from 2000 to 1500 U one time per wee k and held if his hemoglobin was greater than 10 g/dL. We discuss dial ysis-associated priapism and the effects of erythropoietin on the coag ulation cascade and male hormone levels in an effort to elucidate the etiology of priapism in this patient. UROLOGY 52: 328-330, 1998. (C) 1 998, Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.