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Latest News from the ISSM - 14 June 2013 Member Login
International Symposium on Prostate, Androgens and Men's Sexual Health Begins Next Week

It's almost time for the International Symposium on Prostate, Androgens and Men's Sexual Health! The event takes place 21 - 23 June in Berlin, Germany.

The planned program is as follows: 

21 June - Prostate Health and Men's Sexual Health

22 June - Androgens and Men's Sexual Health

23 June - Interactive Round Tables on Men's Sexual Health

Please note that pre-registration ends on Sunday, 16 June. If you plan to attend and haven't registered yet, please click here to do so.

There are still some rooms available at the symposium hotel, The InterContinental Hotel Berlin, at the rate of EUR 155 per night. To take advantage of this special rate, please click here and make your reservations as soon as possible.

The symposium is designated for a maximum of 14 hours of European external CME credits.  Please click here for more information.

We are looking forward to meeting our colleagues for an insightful, productive symposium and hope to see you there!

Smartphone Application Helps Monitor Peyronie's Disease

A smartphone application designed to help assess Peyronie's disease has been deemed accurate and reliable by the American research team that developed it.

The University of Washington Peyronie’s Examination Network (UWPEN) app allows patients to monitor their Peyronie's disease is the privacy of their own homes. 

To use the app, a patient (or his partner) takes a photograph of the erect penis. Using a touchscreen, he can then indicate points of curvature and narrowing. The app can compute the measurements for his physician's review.

To ensure privacy, the photos are converted to black and white pixelated images.

The researchers analyzed UWPEN's performance in terms of intertest, interobserver, and intraobserver reliability.

They designed fifteen malleable cylinders bent at angles that were similar to Peyronie's curvature. They also made clay models to represent penises with different degrees of narrowing.

Three blinded observers were asked to measure each of the cylinders using a protractor, a goniometer, and the UWPEN app. Each cylinder was measured three times with each tool by each observer.

Similarly, the observers measured the clay models using a ruler and the app. Again, each observer measured the each model three times with each tool.

The researchers found that the measurements taken with UWPEN, for both curvature and narrowing, were comparable to those taken with the protractor, goniometer, and ruler. Each of the observers produced reliable results and could reproduce accurate UWPEN measurements.

To learn more about the study, including some of its limitations, please click here.

The study was published online in April in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

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