Impotence in Patients with Uremia:

Abstract

Four of the 7 uremia patients were impotent and all 4 had low blood levels of testosterone, normal levels of FSH [follicle stimulating hormone]. Normal levels of LH [luteinizing hormone] occurred in 3 and were elevated in 1, but all had elevated levels of PTH [parathyroid hormone]. The other 3 were potent with various frequencies of intercourse; 2 of these patients had low levels of testosterone and 1 had elevated levels of LH but all had high blood levels of PTH. It appears that one cannot detect a simple correlation between potency and/or frequency of intercourse and the blood levels of these various hormones. Suppression of the parathyroid gland activity using 1, 25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 apparently may result in normalization of the blood levels of the sex hormone level and improvement in sexual potency of dialysis patients.