Viagra Could Be Used In Bone Surgery

the use of the Viagra drug has not been pushed to its full potential

The world famous erectile dysfunction medication Viagra is in the news again! Testing is being done to see whether the Viagra drug could be facilitated to help save the lives of people who undergo bone surgery. The research that is being done by scientists from Australia and Switzerland is looking at whether by adding the active ingredient of Viagra (namely sildenafil) to the anesthetic drugs just before the surgery commences it could possibly lower the chances of you suffering from heart problems during and after the operation.

Bone surgery like hip replacements, knee replacements and operations on the spine are a complicated process and it is not unknown that during the operations fatty bone marrow sometimes ends up getting into the bloodstream which can cause problems and in some rare cases even death.

What Viagra does is it opens up the arteries in the body and thus it is easier for the blood to flow to certain parts of your body. As well as opening up the penile artery which allows men to get better erections the Viagra drug also opens up the pulmonary artery in the heart and this could mean that any fatty deposits that build up after the bone surgery will not cause blockages around the body and create hypertension or high blood pressure.

The researchers have been testing their hypothesis on sheep and so far the results are promising. They have committed themselves to more animal research before they start to test the use of Viagra for bone marrow patients in humans.

At Ukmedix News we believe that the use of the Viagra drug has not been sufficiently pushed to its full potential and that in the near future Viagra will be taken by men and women for all sorts of heart and lung problems. Ukmedix News will be keeping you posted on any new developments on this story.