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Efficacy and safety of sildenafil in the evaluation of pulmonary hypertension in severe heart failure.

Alaeddini J, Uber PA, Park MH, Scott RL, Ventura HO, Mehra MR

Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplantation Center, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana 70121, USA.

This study sought to evaluate the utility of sildenafil in assessing pulmonary artery reactivity in left-sided cardiac failure and secondary pulmonary hypertension (PH). Fourteen consecutive patients with heart failure were studied, with oral doses of either sildenafil 25 mg (n = 8) or 50 mg (n = 6) every 8 hours for </=3 doses, and invasive serial hemodynamic measurements were performed. Thirteen patients (93%) demonstrated >20% decreases in pulmonary artery pressures. There was also a 20% reduction of the pulmonary vascular resistance/systemic vascular resistance ratio, indicating relative pulmonary artery selectivity. Compared with sildenafil 25 mg, sildenafil 50 mg demonstrated greater reductions of pulmonary pressures. Oral sildenafil is safe and effective for the evaluation of PH reactivity in heart failure.

Published 29 November 2004 in Am J Cardiol, 94(11): 1475-7.
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