CASE REPORT article
Front. Surg.
Sec. Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2025.1562319
Nursing Care for a Patient with Post-Penile Prosthesis Implantation Infection: A Case Report
Provisionally accepted
- 1Gongli Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
- 2People's Liberation Army Joint Logistics Support Force 940th Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
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Three-piece expandable penile prosthesis implantation is the ultimate means to treat penile erectile dysfunction, and patients can achieve high levels of satisfaction.However, once postprosthetic infection occurs, clinical treatment and care become very challenging. However, the nursing experience about this disease is rare reported.Therefore, this paper documents the nursing experience of a single case involving postoperative infection following penile prosthesis implantation, with the objective of providing a reference for the clinical management and nursing care of similar cases.
Keywords: Infection, Penile prosthesis implantation, Nursing, Case report Infection, case report
Received: 17 Jan 2025; Accepted: 21 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Gao, Liu, Zhou, Wang, Meng, Chen and Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Huiying Chen, Gongli Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
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