FREE subscriptions for doctors and students… This is an operation to reverse priapism when conservative measures have failed. The procedure creates a shunt between the engorged corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum of the glans penis.

What is a Winter shunt?

The Ebbehøj shunt involves insertion of a scalpel through the glans penis lateral to the meatus into the underlying distal end of one or both of the rigid corpora cavernosa. 13. The Winter’s shunt involves the same maneuver, however, with a large biopsy needle substituted for the scalpel.

What is high flow priapism?

High-Flow Priapism (Nonischemic, Arterial) High-flow priapism is a persistent erection caused by unregulated cavernous arterial inflow. It was first described by Burt et al in 1960 when a man developed a persistent erection following traumatic coitus.