Prevention and treatment of complications of inflatable penile prosthesis surgery: a review article.

Over the last 16 years more than 3,000 procedures involving multi-component inflatable penile prosthesis have been performed. A variety of types of complications have been encountered, including mechanical problems with the prosthesis, intraoperative complications, postoperative complications, problems with infection and patient dissatisfaction. During the course of this experience we have made some observations and developed techniques to minimize and treat the complications seen with both routine and difficult inflatable penile prosthesis implantation surgery.