Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Improve Erectile Function Following Surgery for Prostate Cancer

• Status: Unknown status
• Trial end date: 2021-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if adding hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a therapy that delivers oxygen under slight pressure, to a drug treatment of PDE5I (such as Viagra, Levitra, Cialis)for men following surgery for prostate cancer will result in more men being able to continue to have erections.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hartford Hospital
• Treatments: Sildenafil Citrate

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• male

• age 40-69

• diagnosis of Stage I prostate cancer

• bilateral NSRRP as primary treatment

• sexual potency prior to surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• COPD, CHF, diabetes mellitus

• known inability to tolerate PDE5I

• confinement anxiety/claustrophobia

• planned adjuvant or neo-adjuvant therapy

• patients taking alpha blockers or nitrates

• patients with retinitis pigmentosa