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October 03, 2005Viagra Increases Brain Blood Flow in MS Patients and Could Treat Cognitive Impairment Associated With the Disease: Presented at ECTRMS
"Viagra appears to help cerebral blood perfusion and brain activation in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), reported here on September 29th at the 21st Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS).
Viagra could become a treatment for the cognitive impairment which affects more than 50% of MS patients,," said investigator and presenter Stephanie Manson, MD, Researcher. "MS patients have reduced cerebral flow as part of the onset of the disease. This starts at a very early stage of the disease," Dr. Manson said. "We took secondary progressive patients and we gave them one dose of Viagra. We found that it acutely increased their cerebral blood flow, which means that the neurons are getting more oxygen. It is quite dangerous to have a low cerebral blood flow." "MORE |