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Revista mexicana de urología
On-line version ISSN 2007-4085Print version ISSN 0185-4542
Abstract
ALVAREZ, Juan Camilo; REVEIZ, Néstor and GARCIA-PERDOMO., Herney Andrés. Bibliometric analysis: Milestones in sexual medicine, erectil dysfunction therapies over time. Rev. mex. urol. [online]. 2019, vol.79, n.6, e02. Epub Nov 24, 2020. ISSN 2007-4085.
Background:
The development of sexual medicine has a broad historic background, from mystic and religious understandings of conception and virility to the pathophysiologic understanding of fertilization and erection. New therapeutic treatments have emerged from a historic knowledge of sexual medicine. Unlike other disciplines, sexual medicine has maintained different management options throughout its history.
Objective:
The aim of the present article was to analyze and evaluate publication trends in sexual medicine to evaluate erectile dysfunction behavior and its indicated therapies over a twenty-year period, providing a temporal description of changes in paradigms in this branch of medicine, as well as of its development and associated research.
Methodology:
A bibliometric analysis by five-year periods, utilizing PubMed, was carried out.
Conclusion:
There was an increased trend in publications related to testosterone, phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors, and antioxidants, whereas the number of articles on vacuum systems remained steady. The present analysis reveals that there is still much to be explored in the field of sexual medicine.
Keywords : History of medicine; Urology; Sexual dysfunction; Testosterone; Phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors; Bibliometrics.