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Dr. Virag received the Gold Medal of the Merit “Rene Fontaine” from the Brazilian Society for Angiology and Vascular Society
Ronald Virag, MD a vascular surgeon, is known for his work with phentolamine and papaverine for erectile dysfunction during the 1980s. Born in Metz, France in 1938, Dr. Virag graduated from Paris University in 1962. After training in general and cardiovascular surgery...
Intracavernous Injection of Papaverine as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Method in Erectile Failure
The effect of intracavernous injection of papaverine (ICIP) has been investigated in 45 men: 6 normally potent volunteers, 10 psychogenic, and 29 organic impotent males. The first two groups obtained erections within 10 minutes, lasting from 1 to 4 hours, after...