Stem cell therapy in erectile dysfunction: science fiction or realistic treatment option?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Chrysovalantis Toutziaris; Georgios Dimitriadis; Ioannis Vakalopoulos; Dimitrios Memmos; Ioannis Mykoniatis
- Source
- Hormones. 17:315-320
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
medicine.medical_treatment
030232 urology & nephrology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Erectile Dysfunction
Animals
Humans
Medicine
Progenitor cell
Intensive care medicine
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
business.industry
Prostatectomy
Treatment options
General Medicine
Stem-cell therapy
medicine.disease
Clinical trial
Erectile dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction
medicine.symptom
Stem cell
business
Stem Cell Transplantation
- Language
- ISSN
- 2520-8721
1109-3099
Stem cell therapy has become a subject of great interest to researchers worldwide. One of the medical conditions being studied for possible treatment with the use of stem cells is erectile dysfunction, and particularly organic and post-radical prostatectomy erectile dysfunction. However, is stem cell therapy a viable treatment option for erectile dysfunction? The current body of literature provides a wide array of clinical trials performed on animal models simulating different types of human erectile dysfunction. Unfortunately, only a handful of studies have been performed on human patients and almost all of them were phase 1 studies limited by the small sample size. This review aims to summarize the available evidence on the use of stem cell therapy for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and also to provide an overview of upcoming and ongoing clinical trials in this field.