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Sildenafil: When the Off-Label Use Came First

June 22, 2017August 14, 2017 scishenan Pharmaceuticals
A blue pill proclaiming it is for ED or the thing it was originally developed for

There has been some amused talk of prescribing sildenafil (famously known as Viagra, much less famously as Revatio) for pulmonary hypertension. How strange it is that doctors are now prescribing an erectile dysfunction drug for potentially life threatening conditions. The logic behind the alternative uses is sound enough: they all deal with regulating blood flow […]

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