Viagra Miracles: Sex Pill Viagra Used To Cure An Enlarged Heart

According to research on mice, Viagra may play a prominent role in reversing growth abnormalities in the heart.

Researchers are of the opinion that Viagra reversed the abnormal growth of heart muscles and restored normal heart function to mice with enlarged hearts.

Hypertrophy

A larger-than-normal heart is quite a serious medical condition. Commonly termed as hypertrophy, it is a main feature of heart failure and can be fatal. The condition develops because of chronically uncontrolled high blood pressure. This forces the heart to pump harder to satisfy the body's requirements; to adapt to these high pressures, the muscles of the heart enlarge.

Enlarged Heart In Humans And Use Of Viagra

Individuals with hypertrophy (enlarged hearts) have a much higher probability of developing heart disease, heart failure or sudden cardiac death. The study states that Viagra may turn out to be an effective treatment for a chronic heart condition.

The next point of action will be to conduct research to see if the Viagra will have the same advantageous effect in humans that it had shown in mice.

It is also has come to the conclusion that the enzyme pathway blocked by sildenafil (PDE5A), never before known to play a prominent part in the heart, is charged when the heart is exposed to pressure stress and hypertrophied. The findings of the study provide a few of the strongest proofs that blocking the heart's adaptive response to hypertrophy does not harm its function but may improve it.

Improvements When Using Sildenafil

Researchers come to the conclusion that heart function, normally measured by pressure/volume analysis of the muscle's ability to contract and pump blood, surprisingly improved after hypertrophy had been halted and treated. While researchers were of the view that that hypertrophy was an adaptive feedback to pressure stress, the functional gains lasted despite the heart's continued exposure to high blood pressure.

Improvements were evident in more than ten measures of heart function, taking into account heart relaxation, cardiac output and heart contractility (which enhanced by staggering 40 percent). Furthermore, these types of improvements were evident even when therapy was deferred and initiated two weeks after hypertrophy had already developed.

Conclusive Evidence Of Improvement After Use Of Sildenafil

The study clearly demonstrates that sildenafil can eliminate hypertrophy. Its effects can not only be halted, but also reversed. The findings provide a better understanding of the biological pathways and suggest possible therapies using Viagra. It has the added advantage of already being termed safe and effective for other medical purposes.

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