Is Sildenafil Citrate Associated With an Amelioration of the Symptomatology of Androgen Decline in the Aging Male?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 177, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2267-2271

  Koulikov, Dmitry ^a   Fridmans, Alon ^a   Chertin, Boris ^a   Shenfeld, Ofer ^a   Farkas, Amicur ^a   Spitz, Irving M ^a,b  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

aging; hypogonadism; impotence; sildenafil; testosterone

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SILDENAFIL; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGING; ANDROPAUSE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PIPERAZINES; PURINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SULFONES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 34248150869     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.01.123     Document Type: Article

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