A team of doctors in the Johns Hopkins University is making waves among the medical fraternity, after they have come out successfully from a research, which proves that a PDE5 inhibitor like Viagra can treat and prevent recurring priapism in men.

Priapism is a disturbing and discomforting disorder among men, as men suffer from fatal, recurring erections that can have a debilitating effect on his normal erectile functions, during each spell of priapism. Generally, men go through two types of priapism