Effect of kidney transplantation on sexual dysfunction in patients with end stage renal disease: A systematic review

Table 1 Summary of included studies

Ref.	Country	Population	Tool for EF assessment	No. of participants	No. of living donor RTRs	Type of renal transplant anastomosis	Age ± SD	Months of dialysis before RT ± SD	Time point of EF assessment (months after RT)	No. of patients with smoking	No. of patients with hypertension	No. of patients with diabetes	Testosterone prior to RT (ng/dL)
Gontero et al[18]	Italy	Adult males on HD undergoing RT	EF domain of IIEF-15	22	NA	End-to-side external iliac artery	51 ± 10.5	11.5 ± 5.5	3	NA	NA	NA	410 ± 182
Mirone et al[19]	Italy	Adult males on HD undergoing RT	EF domain of IIEF-15	78	0	Internal or external iliac artery	NA	NA	3	NA	NA	NA	NA
Nanjappa et al[27]	India	Adult males on HD undergoing RT	IIEF-5	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	37	63	NA	NA
Nassir[20]	Saudi Arabia	Adult males with sexual partners on HD or dialysis	EF domain of IIEF-15	25	NA	NA	49.2 ± 11.4	22 ± 18.8	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Pourmand et al[21]	Iran	Adult males on HD undergoing RT	IIEF-5	64	NA	Common iliac artery: 8	41.1 ± 8.7	41.8 ± 31.9	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Pyrgidis et al[28]	Egypt	Hepatitis C virus+ adult males on dialysis	IIEF-5	64	0	NA	50.1 ± 6.1	12.8 ± 20.5	NA	NA	NA	NA	307 ± 94
Teng et al[22]	China	Adult males on dialysis undergoing RT	EF domain of IIEF-15	24	NA	Internal iliac artery	44.7 ± 9.8	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Javid et al[23]	Iran	Sexually active adult males on MHD		NA	NA	Internal and external iliac artery	43.24 ± 8.73		12
Pan et al[24]	China	Adult males on maintenance hemodialysis undergoing Ktx who suffered from SARS-COV-2 infection		NA	NA	NA	40.2 ± 9.7	32.5 ± 35.3	6
El hennawy et al[25]	Saudi Arabia	Adult males on maintenance hemodialysis undergoing Ktx		68	NA	NA	48.96+/-12.9		12
Mondal et al[26]	India	Adult males on maintenance hemodialysis undergoing Ktx		NA	NA	NA	40.9 ± 9.9	13.6 ± 0.43

EF: Erectile function; RTRs: Renal transplant recipients; RT: Renal transplantation; HD: Hemodialysis; IIEF: International Index of Erectile Function; NA: Not available.