Is Chronic Sildenafil Therapy Safe and Clinically Beneficial in Patients With Systolic Heart Failure?

Congestive Heart Failure

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 99-103

  Amin, Ahmad ^a   Mahmoudi, Ebrahim ^a   Navid, Hossein ^a   Chitsazan, Mitra ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; PLACEBO; SILDENAFIL; SPIRONOLACTONE;

6 MINUTE WALK TEST; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIURETIC THERAPY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DYSPEPSIA; EPISTAXIS; EXERCISE TEST; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GASTRITIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MYALGIA; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PARESTHESIA; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIAPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG MONITORING; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, SYSTOLIC; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHODIESTERASE 5 INHIBITORS; PIPERAZINES; PURINES; SULFONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875809356     PISSN: 15275299     EISSN: 17517133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chf.12008     Document Type: Article

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