Use Viagra to Save a Baby

This is really bizarre things, i haven’t heard before, if a viagra could be used to save a baby lives, as we know Viagra, Revatio and under various other trade names, is a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). It was developed and is being marketed by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. It acts by inhibiting cGMP specific phosphodiesterase type 5, an enzyme that regulates blood flow in the penis. Since becoming available in 1998, sildenafil has been the prime treatment for erectile dysfunction; its primary competitors on the market are tadalafil (Cialis) and vardenafil (Levitra). It is frequently called the ‘blue pill’. but how they can use these pills to save a baby??

A doctor in Chennai, India, used Viagra to save the life of a 4-month-old baby when her blood pressure spiked during an operation to correct a rare congenital heart defect.

The baby, whose name is Tanisha, was born to Subrata and Dipa Saha of Kolkata, India, in December. Cardiac surgeon K.R. Balakrishnan of Malar Hospital said Tanisha’s heart was on the wrong side of her body and had hole in it. She also had an underdeveloped right lung, which needed repairing.

Balakrishnan gave Tanisha Viagra during the risky, four-hour operation when her blood pressure rose and her blood began flowing in the wrong direction to the heart, he said.

The impotence drug Viagra was initially developed to treat high blood pressure and certain symptoms of heart disease. However, scientists discovered during trials that it also could be used to treat sexual problems in men.

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