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Trial reportHeart and vessels2010

Noninvasive assessment of acute cardiopulmonary effects of an oral single dose of sildenafil in patients with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension.

Neda Behzadnia, Katayoun Najafizadeh, Babak Sharif-Kashani, Davoud Oulad Dameshghi, Payman Shahabi

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Trial report in Heart and vessels, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Neda BehzadniaCardiovascular Department, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NRITLD), Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Darabad, Shaheed Bahonar Avenue, PO: 19575/154, Tehran 19556, Iran.
Katayoun Najafizadeh
Babak Sharif-Kashani
Davoud Oulad Dameshghi
Payman Shahabi
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRMasih Daneshvari Hospital · IR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We aimed to assess the acute cardiopulmonary effects of a 100-mg oral single dose of sildenafil in patients with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (IPAH) using a well-validated but less-used noninvasive echocardiographic method for the measurement of both systolic and diastolic pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), by tricuspid regurgitation (TR) velocity curve analysis. We studied 12 consecutive patients with IPAH (10 patients with New York Heart Association functional class III, and 2 patients with functional class II). A 100-mg oral single dose of sildenafil was added to previous medications of all patients and its immediate effects were evaluated 1, 5, and 12 h after treatment. Using paired analysis, administration of a 100-mg oral single dose of sildenafil led to a significant reduction in mean PAP and a remarkable increase in pulmonary acceleration time (PAT) 1 h after treatment (P = 0.000; 95% confidence interval [CI] 18.99-26.00 and P = 0.005; 95% CI -12.89 to -2.95, respectively). In addition, although the right heart dimensions (right atrium and right ventricle) showed a trend toward improvement, the differences were not statistically significant (P = 0.13 and P = 0.08, respectively). Our results demonstrated that Doppler examination of TR alone can be easily used for the estimate of systolic and diastolic PAP in patients with IPAH. This study also shows that sildenafil is the only drug given orally that can evaluate the vasodilatory capacity of the pulmonary vascular bed in patients with IPAH, with promising effects on mPAP and PAT in these patients.

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Echocardiography, DopplerAdministration, OralAdultAntihypertensive AgentsBlood Flow VelocityBlood PressureFemaleHumansHypertension, PulmonaryIranMaleMiddle AgedPhosphodiesterase InhibitorsPiperazinesPredictive Value of TestsProspective StudiesAntihypertensive AgentsPhosphodiesterase InhibitorsPiperazinesPurinesSildenafil CitrateSulfonesVasodilator Agents

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