at Ukmedix News we didn’t have a clue either!

New research done with the erectile dysfunction medication Levitra shows that men who use it do not experience a negative impact on their orbital hemodynamics and the IOP in their eyes. The research that was done in Turkey by Doctor Taner and his team at the school of medicine based in the University of Kirikkale looked specifically at how Levitra affected the eyes. They looked at IOP, systemic blood pressure and orbital hemodynamics paying particular attention to the peak systolic velocity, the end-diastolic velocity and the resistive index scores of the ophthalmic, posterior ciliary and central retina arteries.

I am sure that you are all thinking what the hell are we talking about? Yes, we admit it at Ukmedix News we didn’t have a clue either! However we can tell you this…. erectile dysfunction medications Viagra, Cialis and Levitra have in extremely rare cases been linked to a condition called NAION and we are not going to confuse you more by explaining what it stands for. However this eye condition can induce temporary and in very very rare cases permanent blindness in men.

The study done with the Levitra medication was obviously done to test how the blood flow to the eyes is affected by the use of a PDE-5 inhibitor like Levitra and the researchers could not report any clinically significant changes in the systolic blood pressure however they did register that there was a significant lowering in the diastolic blood pressure after the use of the Levitra.  The researchers also said that they had noted a clinically significant rise in the end-diastolic velocity of the central retinal artery however this was not the same for the orbital blood flow speed in the ophthalmic artery as well as for the posterior ciliary artery.

The study was done on 21 men who suffered from erectile dysfunction and the results were published in the clinical publication called the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

All we can say at this point at Ukmedix News is that if there really was any serious or dangerous changes in blood pressure in the areas around the eyes with the use of the erectile dysfunction medication Levitra these researchers would have found it. Also the three erectile dysfunction medications which have been used by millions and millions of men all around the world have never been proven to have caused 1 single case of NAION.