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Vol. 93 No. 1 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2021.1.86

Red man syndrome caused by intracavernous irrigation with vancomycin at the time of placing penile implants

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Received: 8 December 2020
Published: 19 March 2021
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Red man syndrome, vancomycin, penile implants

Authors

Mohamad Moussa
Urology Department, Zahraa Hospital, University Medical Center, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Mohamad Abou Chakra
mohamedabouchakra@hotmail.com
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.
Athanasios Papatsoris
2nd Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Sismanoglio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Athanasios Dellis
Department of Urology/General Surgery, Areteion Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Yasmine Moussa
Clinic of Dermatology, Dr. Brinkmann, Schult and Samimi-Fard, Gladbeck, Germany.

To the Editor,
Erectile dysfunction is a condition that affects more than half of men between 40 and 70 years of age. Penile prosthesis (PP) implant is recognized, at present, as the most effective option to obtain an artificial erection satisfactory for sexual intercourse in those patients in which the pharmacological approach is contraindicated or ineffective. [...]

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Red man syndrome caused by intracavernous irrigation with vancomycin at the time of placing penile implants. (2021). Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia, 93(1), 86-87. https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2021.1.86

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