It's a unique tissue that's only present in the penis, when you get an erection, blood flows into the corpus cavernosa, and it fills up like a sponge.

Rajveer Purohit

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You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.

Rajveer Purohit

I knew right away that something was wrong, and I went straight into emergency protocol. I breathed in the pain for a couple of beats, rolled over, flipped on the lights and called 911.

Rajveer Purohit

In other countries... particularly in the Middle East... people try to lose their erection because they're socially embarrassed about it.

Rajveer Purohit

I did a urethroplasty, where we cleaned up the edges of the urethra and then put the two edges back together.

Rajveer Purohit