Sleep-related painful erections in an elderly man successfully treated using clonazepam

摘要

To the Editor: Sleep-related painful erections (SRPE) are characterized by deep penile pain that occurs during erections in the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep. Since its description in 1971,1 only 33 cases have been reported in the literature albeit none in older men. We report a case of nocturnal painful erections in an elderly man successfully treated using clonazepam.