Deans' stroke musings: Stroke-An Adverse Reaction to Sildenafil

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Stroke-An Adverse Reaction to Sildenafil - Viagra

Be careful out there. But what should we do about the research that shows that Viagra is useful in Rehabilitation?
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/03/viagara-and-stroke-rehab.html

http://journals.lww.com/clinicalneuropharm/Abstract/2006/05000/Stroke_An_Adverse_Reaction_to_Sildenafil.13.aspx

Abstract

Although cardiovascular side effects of sildenafil are recognized, little is known about stroke risk in patients who take this drug. We report a patient with multiple strokes in the posterior cerebral circulation in close temporal association with sildenafil use. This case report further emphasize that stroke is, although rare, real side effect of sildenafil. Potential users should be warned before taking it, especially if they have other stroke risk factors, as recommended by the manufacturer.

Sildenafil (Viagra)-induced spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02688690120072513