Pfizer’s Viagra seen to improve lower urinary tract symptoms

Treatment with Pfizer’s sildenafil (Viagra) can improve urinary tract function in men with erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), according to Reuters Health.

More than 70 per cent of men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) related to BPH also have erectile dysfunction.

Sponsored by Pfizer the results of the study were presented at a meeting of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America Dr Kevin V McVary, from Northwestern University in Chicago said “The improvement in urination with Viagra is dramatic.

“The improvement is on par with what we’ve come to expect from some of the medications commonly used to treat BPH symptoms. In fact, better than some of the other medications.”

“One message from this study is that we can hit two birds with one stone,” Dr McVary told Reuters.

“The other, which is more interesting to me, is that LUTS and erectile dysfunction may be manifestations of the same central problem.”

In recent weeks studies have found sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient of Viagra, to have beneficial effects on a range of conditions from pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) to Raynaud’s phenomenon.

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