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Today I want to share with you some information that was a great surprise for me.
Viagra can be used in stroke recovery study!!!
It’s true that each year about 750,000 Americans experience a new or recurrent stroke attack. It is the nation’s third leading cause of death, ranking behind diseases of the heart and all forms of cancer.
Some years ago Henry Ford Hospital started a safety study using the drug Viagra to settle on if it can help patients make progress from a stroke.
The aim of the study was to help people recover or improve motor and speech skills and in addition cognitive thinking.
During a number of years Henry Ford has been researching stroke recovery using Viagra in laboratory animals with good outcomes. And it was found that it’s possible to use Viagra to produce new brain cells! When animals with stroke are treated with Viagra, the drug provides very significant neurological functional benefit. The animals do much better on many different outcome measures, including motor function, neurological outcome and weight gain. There are far fewer functional deficits. Animals treated with Viagra days after stroke had a significant reduction in neurological deficit and a significant induction of new brain cells.
Henry Ford Hospital has used Viagra for Michigan patients for neurological recovery, both under a compassionate use basis.
Viagra was selected for the reason it is chemically analogous to other compounds shown to improve function in animals after stroke. Dr. Chopp says that Viagra activates a molecule called cyclic guanosine monophoshate in brain tissue that creates new cells in the brain.
And now some words about patient, Rene Jarinski, 43. She has been treated with Viagra since suffering a stroke in July 2003. She was diagnosed with locked in syndrome, a very uncommon condition, in which she could only move her eyes up down.
Doctors were not sure that Viagra would help the recovery. Nevertheless, she is now able to smile, eat, move all four limbs and stand up with assistance. Things moved little by little in the first couple of months; most of the recovery has come after the sixth month period. This is very uncommon for people after stroke who typically see a deceleration in recovery. People with locked in syndrome rarely walk or talk again. As a matter of fact Rene made a recovery that doesn’t follow the normal recovery curve.
Dr. Silver said that for patients like Rene, the standard treatments would be occupational therapy, speech therapy and physical therapy. Rene’s family asked for anything else beyond the standard of care that could be provided for her. They to have been explained that anything else would be experimental and provided on a compassionate use basis.
Dr. Silver pointed that certain drugs like Viagra produce new brain cells and these cells are created in both elderly as well as young subjects. One can be treated with Viagra, erythropoietin, or statins days after stroke and there is a significant reduction in neurological deficit and a significant induction of new brain cells. Analogous studies and successful restoration of neurological function after stroke, trauma, and neurodegenerative disease have been performed by Dr. Chopp and colleagues.

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