Figure 4.
Various treatments offered by physicians to the study participants with SCD-related priapism. Patients (n = 163) were given multiple options because of the recurrent nature of the priapism: pain medication (n = 68; 84%), hormone shots (n = 26; 32.1%), sedation (n = 21; 25.9%), penile surgery (n = 13; 16%), penile injections (n = 7; 8.6%), blood transfusion (n = 7; 8.6%), anesthesia (n = 4; 4.9%), and other (n = 7; 8.6%) were reported treatments received by the participants.