Peyronies AKA bent nail disease was originally described by Guilio Cesare Aranzi as a rare affection of the genitals in people with excessive sexual intercourse. A small tumor like a bean in the flaccid penis which causes a deformity similar to a ram horn during erection in 1587. It was not given its current name until later when the surgeon to King Louis XIV, François Gigot de la Peyronie described the cases of three men with fibrous, thickening of the penile shaft with painful erections and penile curvatu
To give sexual pleasure is a gift; however there may be some instances when the reproductive system may be afflicted by disease. Peyronie’s disease is one of these diseases which typically affect men aged 40 to 70 years old, yet may also occur in younger men.
Peyronie’s disease is an abnormal curvature of the penis shaft which can bring about painful erections and areas of thickening on the body of the penis. This creates an angulation in the penis, further causing erectile dysfunction, because of the resultant buckling of the penile shaft or the lack of rigidity along the area of thickening. The area of thickening may cut off the blood supply of the penis, thus causing erectile dysfunction.