Editorial Comment 1
2003; Elsevier BV; Volume: 62; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0090-4295(03)00360-1
ISSN1527-9995
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
ResumoThe world of ED changed forever at the 1983 American Urological Association meeting in Las Vegas, when a British physiologist named Giles Brindley stepped from behind the podium and lowered his pants, revealing to colleagues his phentolamine-induced erection. Said one pundit of this watershed event, “Farther down the Strip, Siegfried and Roy were making a white Bengal tiger disappear, and two circus aerialists—one sitting on the other’s shoulders—were traversing a tightrope without a net. But even in Vegas they’d never seen a show like this.” Thus was crystallized the enduring principle that penile erection is caused by smooth muscle relaxation in the corpora cavernosa. Few breakthroughs in medical history have been heralded with the dramatic impact of Brindley’s moment in Nevada.
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