Does prostate surgery affect erections?

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0:44 affect erections. The nerves responsible for erections, the erector nerves, run [music] outside the prostatic capsule. In holmium laser enucleation, [music] we work inside this capsule. We don't touch those nerves.

0:59 It's as if the prostate were a room. We [music] empty what's in the room, but the walls and what's outside aren't touched. Published studies, and this includes our own data, show that erectile [music] function is maintained, or even improves after HoLEP.