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Viagra a Heart Medication

Earlier viagra or sildenafil was manufactured as a heart medication. It belongs to the family of medicines called phosphodiesterase inhibitors. Pfizer thought that viagra can act as a heart supporting medicine, like other inotropic agents which fall into the same category like amrinone and milrinone. Cardiac function can be greatly improved by Phosphodiesterase inhibitors but on the downside Phosphodiesterase inhibitors can dilate peripheral vasculature, therefore they can also drop the blood pressure levels instead of improving it.

Virginia Commonwealth University conducted a new research which stated that there could be a benefit of using viagra and maybe even Levitra in patients with MI which is ongoing.

At the time of a heart attack the heart misses out on oxygen which in turn results in damage to muscles in the heart and tissue. After such an attack suffers need a treatment to repair and reduce the damage which can improve their chances of survival. Other than early reperfusion there are no likely therapies which are effective in repairing and protecting such damage in a clinical manner.

Eric Lipman Chair of Cardiology at VCU and Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D., professor of medicine and other workers have known to compare nitroglycerin with two drugs which work for the treatment of erectile dysfunction namely – Levitra or Vardenafil and Viagra or sildenafil to find out the effectiveness of each for heart protection which could be used after a heart attack. Angina or chest pain can be treated with the help of nitroglycerin, which is a vasodilator and it opens blood vessels which in improving the blood flow to a patient’s heart.

According to a report by a research team it was stated in animal model that both Vardenafil and sildenafil had reduced the damage in the heart muscle which was given after a major heart attack and nitroglycerin could not reduce the damage in the heart which it was given under a similar circumstance.

February issue of the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, the official publication of the International Society for Heart Research is where the findings were published.