Study: Viagra Helps in 4 Out of 5 Patients Who Have Had Rectal Surgery

Viagra completely reverses or satisfactorily improves erectile dysfunction in four out of five patients who have had rectal surgery for rectal cancer or inflammatory bowel disease, according to British researchers.

The researchers from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford reported in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum on 14 patients with erectile dysfunction after rectal excision who received Viagra, and 18 who received a placebo.

The researchers said 11 of the 14 (79 percent) responded to Viagra, compared with 3 of the 18 (17 percent) taking the placebo .

They said that Viagra improved both erectile function domain scores and total International Index of Erectile Function scores, while the plaebo improved neither.

Viagro "completely reverses or satisfactorily improves postproctectomy erectile dysfunction in 79 percent of patients," the researchers concluded. "Side effects are usually mild and well tolerated."

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