premature ejaculation
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- Specialty
- Psychiatry , sexual medicine
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Research
2,553 papers- Current and emerging treatment options for premature ejaculation.Nature reviews. Urology · 2022
- New technologies developed for treatment of premature ejaculation.International journal of impotence research · 2024
- Pelvic floor muscle training improves erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation: a systematic review.Physiotherapy · 2019
- Premature ejaculation: an update on definition and pathophysiology.Asian journal of andrology · 2019
- Dapoxetine and premature ejaculation.International braz j urol : official journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology · 2023
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- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C94349
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0012876
- ICD-9-CM
- 302.75
- Commons category
- Premature ejaculation
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Premature ejaculation (PE) is a male sexual dysfunction that occurs when a male expels semen (and most likely experiences orgasm) soon after beginning sexual activity, and with minimal penile stimulation. It has also been called early ejaculation, rapid ejaculation, rapid climax, premature climax and (historically) ejaculatio praecox. There is no uniform cut-off defining "premature", but a consensus of experts at the International Society for Sexual Medicine endorsed a definition of around one minute after penetration. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) applies a cut-off of 15 seconds from the beginning of sexual intercourse.
Premature ejaculation is treated with behavioral techniques, medications, and rarely surgery. Combined therapy is often most effective.