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A 28 year old male sustained a cervical spinal cord injury (C5, complete) from a traffic accident and was impotent. He started intracavernous injection therapy, by his partner, of papaverine hydrochloride for impotence, restoring ejaculation. His partner had a successful pregnancy after normal sexual intercourse, and delivered a mature female child weighing 3330 g. To our knowledge this is a rare case of a patient with a complete spinal cord injury fathering a child by the above technique.
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Otani, T., Kai, S. & Narushima, M. Ejaculation obtained by intracavernous papaverine in a cervical spinal cord injury patient resulting in pregnancy and childbirth. Case report. Spinal Cord 32, 180–181 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1994.32
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