tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Prehosp Disaster Med
. 2020 Sep 22;1-7.
doi: 10.1017/S1049023X20001223. Online ahead of print.
A Late COVID-19 Complication: Male Sexual Dysfunction
Saeed Shoar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Siamak Khavandi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Elsa Tabibzadeh[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Aydin Vaez[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Ali Khabbazi Oskouei[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Fatemeh Hosseini[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Mohammad Naderan[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Nasrin Shoar[SUP] 8 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Since the beginning of the coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, an exponentially large amount of data has been published to describe the pathology, clinical presentations, and outcomes in patients infected with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus novel virus 2 (SARS-Cov-2). Although COVID-19 has been shown to cause a systemic inflammation predisposing the involvement of multiple organs, its mechanism affecting the urogenital system has not been well-documented. This care report presents the clinical course of two male patients with COVID-19 who developed sexual dysfunction, as anorgasmia, following recovery from the infection. Although no evidence of viral replication or inflammatory involvement could be identified in these cases' urogenital organs, a lack of other known risk factors for anorgasmia points to the role of COVID-19 as the contributing factor.
Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 complication; SARS-CoV-2; anorgasmia; sexual dysfunction.
. 2020 Sep 22;1-7.
doi: 10.1017/S1049023X20001223. Online ahead of print.
A Late COVID-19 Complication: Male Sexual Dysfunction
Saeed Shoar[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Siamak Khavandi[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Elsa Tabibzadeh[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Aydin Vaez[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Ali Khabbazi Oskouei[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Fatemeh Hosseini[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Mohammad Naderan[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Nasrin Shoar[SUP] 8 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32959752
- DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X20001223
Abstract
Since the beginning of the coronavirus infectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, an exponentially large amount of data has been published to describe the pathology, clinical presentations, and outcomes in patients infected with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus novel virus 2 (SARS-Cov-2). Although COVID-19 has been shown to cause a systemic inflammation predisposing the involvement of multiple organs, its mechanism affecting the urogenital system has not been well-documented. This care report presents the clinical course of two male patients with COVID-19 who developed sexual dysfunction, as anorgasmia, following recovery from the infection. Although no evidence of viral replication or inflammatory involvement could be identified in these cases' urogenital organs, a lack of other known risk factors for anorgasmia points to the role of COVID-19 as the contributing factor.
Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 complication; SARS-CoV-2; anorgasmia; sexual dysfunction.