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Acitretin-associated erectile dysfunction: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Two cases of impotence following a treatment with etretinate have been reported in the literature. Acitretin is the principal active metabolite of etretinate. We report a case of erectile dysfunction associated with the use of acitretin. CASE PRESENTATION: A 39-year-old Caucasian man r...

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Autores principales: Rossi, Marco, Pellegrino, Michele
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-210
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description INTRODUCTION: Two cases of impotence following a treatment with etretinate have been reported in the literature. Acitretin is the principal active metabolite of etretinate. We report a case of erectile dysfunction associated with the use of acitretin. CASE PRESENTATION: A 39-year-old Caucasian man referred his incapacity to reach and maintain a penile erection during a course of acitretin for the treatment of a severe form of psoriasis. Physical examination, laboratory findings and psychological analysis did not reveal any abnormalities. Two weeks after the withdrawal of acitretin, the patient reported a normalization of his sexual activity. CONCLUSION: Retinoids have been associated with male reproductive system dysfunctions in human and animal studies. Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of acitretin-induced erectile dysfunction.
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spelling pubmed-27831592009-11-26 Acitretin-associated erectile dysfunction: a case report Rossi, Marco Pellegrino, Michele Cases J Case Report INTRODUCTION: Two cases of impotence following a treatment with etretinate have been reported in the literature. Acitretin is the principal active metabolite of etretinate. We report a case of erectile dysfunction associated with the use of acitretin. CASE PRESENTATION: A 39-year-old Caucasian man referred his incapacity to reach and maintain a penile erection during a course of acitretin for the treatment of a severe form of psoriasis. Physical examination, laboratory findings and psychological analysis did not reveal any abnormalities. Two weeks after the withdrawal of acitretin, the patient reported a normalization of his sexual activity. CONCLUSION: Retinoids have been associated with male reproductive system dysfunctions in human and animal studies. Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of acitretin-induced erectile dysfunction. BioMed Central 2009-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2783159/ /pubmed/19946454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-210 Text en Copyright ©2009 Rossi and Pellegrino; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Acitretin-associated erectile dysfunction: a case report
title_sort acitretin-associated erectile dysfunction: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783159/
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