Grey-Scale Penile Ultrasound Findings in Young Men with Erectile Dysfunction Who Used Finasteride for Androgenic Alopecia: A Retrospective Review

February 2017 in “ The Journal of Sexual Medicine ”

Irwin Goldstein, S. B. King, Steven L. Goldstein

finasteride androgenic alopecia testosterone therapy hypogonadal corporal erectile tissue fibrosis erectile dysfunction Propecia ED

TLDR Finasteride for hair loss can cause erectile dysfunction due to tissue fibrosis.

This document contains two separate studies. The first study looked at the effects of long-term testosterone therapy on anthropometric parameters in hypogonadal men. The study found that weight, waist circumference, and BMI decreased in men receiving long-term testosterone therapy and increased with advancing age in untreated hypogonadal controls. The second study looked at the effects of finasteride on young men with androgenic alopecia. The study found that all eight patients had corporal erectile tissue fibrosis, which led to drug-induced erectile dysfunction.

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community I find it funny a bunch of us on here are on drugs for hairloss and maintain clean/healthy lives and then there’s these mf’s in the 90’s juiced to the gills with steroids and have better hair than all of us lol

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community Why is it that low testosterone causes hair loss as well? How can I be balding?

in Chat 158 upvotes 7 months ago

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community I am a dermatologist with a clinical interest in alopecia. AMA

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In this conversation, 4990 discussed various treatments for hair loss, including oral minoxidil, PRP, transplan, Jak inhibitors, Dutasteride, Finasteride, Olumiant, Ketoconazole, RU58841, microneedling, baricitinib, and CCCA. They recommended scalp biopsies in unclear cases of DUPA, twice weekly to twice daily shampooing for topical minoxidil users, and two sessions spaced one month apart with follow up at month three to determine the effectiveness of PRP treatment.

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