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Specialty:
Board Certification:
Faculty Rank: Professor
Medical or Graduate Education:
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Residency:
Tufts Medical Center - Surgery
Harvard Medical School - Urology
Clinical Expertise:
Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Erectile dysfunction
Incontinence surgery
Infertility, male
Kidney stones
Minimally invasive procedures
Penile and urethral surgery
Penis disorders
Prostate cancer
Sexual dysfunction
Testicular disorders
Testicular pain
Urethral and ureteral disorders
Vasectomy reversal
Research Interests:
Peyronie's disease
Erectile dysfunction
Chronic scrotal content pain
Priapism
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Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.
Predicting Erectile Dysfunction Following Surgical Correction of Peyronie's Disease without Inflatable Penile Prosthesis Placement: Vascular Assessment and Preoperative Risk Factors. Combination of Penile Traction, Intralesional Verapamil, and Oral Therapies for Peyronie's Disease. Investigational noncardiovascular uses of phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors. Peyronie's disease: review of nonsurgical treatment options. Current approach to the man with acute phase Peyronie's disease--case presentation and discussion. Partial plaque excision and grafting (PEG) for Peyronie's disease. Traction therapy for men with shortened penis prior to penile prosthesis implantation: a pilot study. Chronic orchialgia: evaluation and discussion of treatment options. Inflatable penile prosthesis placement in men with Peyronie's disease and drug-resistant erectile dysfunction: A single-center study The management of Peyronie's disease: evidence-based 2010 guidelines. Clomiphene citrate and testosterone gel replacement therapy for male hypogonadism: efficacy and treatment cost Trauma, gender reassignment, and penile augmentation. Ketoconazole and prednisone to prevent recurrent ischemic priapism Penile shortening after radical prostatectomy and Peyronie's surgery Editorial comment on: Surgical treatment of Peyronie's disease by plaque incision and grafting with buccal mucosa. Peyronie's disease: evaluation and review of nonsurgical therapy Is there a place for conservative treatment in Peyronie's disease? Microsurgical denervation of the spermatic cord for chronic orchialgia: long-term results from a single center Surgical correction of Peyronie's disease via tunica albuginea plication or partial plaque excision with pericardial graft: long-term follow up Re: Oral ketoconazole for prevention of postoperative penile erection: a placebo controlled, randomized, double-blind trial: B. J. DeCastro, R. A. Costabile, L. P. McMann and A. C. Peterson. J Urol 2008; 179: 1930-1932. FastSize Medical Extender for the treatment of Peyronie's disease Microsurgical denervation of the spermatic cord. Differential calcium independent regulation of matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases by interleukin-1beta and transforming growth factor-beta in Peyronie's plaque fibroblasts Penile traction therapy for treatment of Peyronie's disease: a single-center pilot study Non-surgical therapy of Peyronie's disease Editorial comment on: a posterior sagittal pararectal approach for repair of posterior urethral distraction injuries. Return of nocturnal erections and erectile function after bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy in men treated nightly with sildenafil citrate: subanalysis of a longitudinal randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Impact of Peyronie's disease on sexual and psychosocial functioning: qualitative findings in patients and controls.
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View Transcript I do general urology, but the area of special interest for me is known as men’s health — which includes male sexual dysfunction, low-testosterone-related issues, infertility, and prostate-related diseases — so benign enlargement might cause urinary problems, and, of course, prostate cancer.
Many men don’t address their health. They delay it until the wheels start falling off. And as a result they miss an opportunity — possibly — to identify diseases early and to be able to treat them and then move on with a happy, healthy, longer, better quality life.
I think the thing that still thrills me about medicine is the privilege of working with people. You establish, very quickly, a trust and an intimacy that nobody else really gets an opportunity to do in such a short period of time. And having that trust and intimacy is so important to the relationship and, of course, ultimately can be rewarding for me. And if I can establish that trust and get good outcomes for the patient, it’s clearly rewarding and beneficial to the patient.
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