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Mountain bike mishap man suffers SEVEN WEEK stiffie
An Irish competitive mountain biker required delicate surgical intervention after his wedding tackle came off the worse for wear after a collision with his bike, resulting in a seven-week erection. According to the Irish Medical Journal, the unnamed 22-year-old hobbled up to Dublin's Tallaght Hospital "with a five week history …
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Wednesday 15th January 2014 07:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
Sometimes
>involved penile angiography and selective arterial embolization, ... using a 5 French Omni flush catheter ... catheterisation of the cavernosal artery using a 2.7 French micro catheter.
I'm real glad I don't understand (and don't want to understand) certain things. But then again, maybe my imagination is running riot and it wasn't all that bad.
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Wednesday 15th January 2014 08:34 GMT JDX
Re: Sometimes
It just means tiny tubes went in and were used to release radioactive dye (so x-rays could be taken of the blood vessels), and blocking selected vessels to reduce blood flow. The tubes were inserted through the guy's artery, not stuck up his willy.
So sounds pretty OK, considering.
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Wednesday 15th January 2014 13:34 GMT Charles 9
Re: Sometimes
Yes, I was actually able to understand the description to enough of a degree to understand what happened. Apparently, when groin met crossbar, he broke open an artery down there and it couldn't heal right resulting in an unusual form of blood ballooning. As I understand it, the procedure involved was meant to locate the problematic artery and then fix the break.
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Wednesday 15th January 2014 16:55 GMT LordHighFixer
Actually
In this particular case, a High Flow Priapism, it was not really a health issue. I mean other than having to stand back 2 meters to pee. It was just annoying. If there was no blood flow, as in the typical situation like this, after 5 weeks either the thing would have fallen off or he would have died. He just got really tired of walking around with the one eyed wonder worm peeking out of the top of his trousers.
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Thursday 16th January 2014 00:24 GMT Fruit and Nutcase
French Catheter Scale
Divide the French scale value by 3 to obtain the diameter of the catheter in mm
"Via the right common femoral artery, pelvic arteriography using a 5 French Omni flush catheter was followed by super selective catheterisation of the cavernosal artery using a 2.7 French micro catheter (Terumo)."
5Fr=1.67mm
2.7Fr=0.9mm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_catheter_scale
Doubt Paris would be familiar with the French Catheter Scale. French Letters, is something else.