Viagra Shown Helpful For Children With Heart Defects

Fighting Heart Defects

The sexual enhancement drug Viagra, useful to many men worldwide for their erectile dysfunction has been shown to help boost the hearts pumping ability in children and young adults who’ve had an operation to correct single ventricle heart defects, new research has reported. During the operation, doctors direct venous blood directly to the pulmonary arteries bypassing the heart. The procedure is the third surgery in a series meant to reconstruct single ventricle defects in children.

The patients in the study were given a placebo or actual Viagra, known in the medical community as sildenafil, three times a day for six weeks. That was then followed by six weeks without the drug or placebo, and then participants were switched to the opposite arm of the study for the remaining six weeks. Before and after each phase of the study, researchers noted the heart function of each individual and noted significant improvement in the hearts performance. They also found that taking sildenafil improved diastolic performance and increased heart output, but the differences didn’t reach statistical significance. These finds suggest that improved ventricular performance associated with taking sildenafil may improve patients exercise performance and quality of life, the researchers concluded.

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