This is a double-blind, sham-controlled randomized, 2 parallel arms, clinical trial with a 12-month recruitment period. All patients will be PDE5I users/responders. After 1 month wash-out period, ED patients will be screened, in order to randomize 70 men with vasculogenic ED.Patients will be randomized in 2 groups (35 subjects in each group) to receive shockwave treatments (12 sessions for all subjects, 5000 shockwaves at each session), twice a week (total of 6 weeks) either at energy level 7 or at sham-control , without treatment interval. The IIEF-ED domain will be evaluated at Visit 1 and, consequently, at baseline and all follow up visits together with the SEP diaries.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
70
The Dornier Aries2 device and will be used for the purpose of the study. LI-ESWT will be applied to the penile shaft and the 2 crura(two sites).
The Dornier Aries2 device and will be used for the purpose of the study but the active probe will be replaced by an identical sham probe.
G.Gennimatas Hospital
Thessaloniki, Greece
The difference between the 2 groups in the percent of subjects who achieve clinically important difference (MCID) in the EF domain score of the IIEF
MCID is defined according to baseline ED severity as:Improvement by 5 or more in the EF domain score of the IIEF for patients with moderate ED(EF scores 11-16) at baseline
Time frame: at 3 month follow up visit
The difference between the 2 groups in the change of the EF domain score of the IIEF
EF domain of the IIEF questionnaire will be completed
Time frame: baseline and 3 month follow up visit.
Change in Sexual Encounter Profile Question 3 (SEP3) score
The percent of subjects who answer ''YES'' in question 3 of SEP questionnaire will be reported
Time frame: baseline and 3 month follow up visit.
Number of patients with treatment related adverse events
Potential treatment related adverse events after the first LI-ESWT session and during the 3 month follow up period will be reported
Time frame: 18 weeks
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