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Viagra is proving to be a miracle drug far beyond its ability to reinvigorate men’s sex lives. The latest miracle Viagra apparently performed is pulling back from the brink of death a woman who had been in a 28-day long COVID coma.
Viagra (aka Sildenafil, its chemical name) was a 1989 Pfizer invention intended to treat heart-related chest pain. By 1998, both the United States and the European Union approved it for medical use. But nobody thinks of chest pain when they think of Viagra. What they think of is the fact that it is a miracle drug for men suffering from erectile dysfunction.
That’s not all that Viagra does, though. Because it works on the arterial system, it can also affect pulmonary arterial hypertension, Raynaud’s phenomenon (a potentially dangerous circulatory problem), altitude sickness, and other types of heart disease. Some athletes also take it off label, claiming that, because it expands their blood vessels, it adds to their aerobic capacity. There are also some indications that it helps women who experience sexual dysfunction.
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