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Coronary blood flow and coronary flow reserve

Coronary blood flow and coronary flow reserve. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.

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  1. In haemodynamic studies sildenafil produced small decreases in systemic and pulmonary blood pressure but caused no adverse cardiovascular effects in specific populations of men with coronary heart disease, and it caused no significant changes in coronary blood flow but had a positive effect on coronary flow reserve in men with severe coronary artery disease, suggesting that PDE5 may play an important role in the regulation of coronary blood flow in the healthy and diseased heart, while in retrospective analyses of extensive clinical trials treatment was not associated with any increase in cardiac risk in patients not receiving organic nitrates or nitrate donor drugs.

    Experimental context and source evidence
    evidence_span
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    experimental_model
    Review of the coronary vascular profile assembled from haemodynamic studies and retrospective analysis of the clinical trial programme
    exposure
    Sildenafil at therapeutic doses in men with coronary heart disease not taking nitrates
    limitations
    A review rather than a new study, and the cardiac risk analyses are retrospective. It measures coronary flow in the intact circulation, where the organ bath records cannot.
    nutrient_topic
    Sildenafil research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct clinical effect, and the drug is recorded separately from its N-desmethyl metabolite and its target enzyme from the homologous retinal PDE6. · Sildenafil
    organism
    Human
    plain_language
    In the living coronary circulation it did not change resting flow, though it improved the reserve the vessels could call on.
    primary_references
    [sil-p11351772] Phosphodiesterase 5 inhibition: effects on the coronary vasculature. (2001). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11351772/ DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2001.tb11011.x
    tissue_or_cell_type
    Coronary circulation

    Sildenafil: the enzyme it occupies instead of the substrate, why it cannot start a signal it can only preserve, the organic nitrate interaction that follows from that, the homologous retinal enzyme ten-fold away, and the pulmonary circulation where the same mechanism became a second indication (2026-09-22) · lines 379–390

    AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Review of the coronary vascular profile assembled from haemodynamic studies and retrospective analysis of the clinical trial programme · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft

    ### sil-no-change-in-coronary-flow In haemodynamic studies sildenafil produced small decreases in systemic and pulmonary blood pressure but caused no adverse cardiovascular effects in specific populations of men with coronary heart disease, and it caused no significant changes in coronary blood flow but had a positive effect on coronary flow reserve in men with severe coronary artery disease, suggesting that PDE5 may play an important role in the regulation of coronary blood flow in the healthy and diseased heart, while in retrospective analyses of extensive clinical trials treatment was not associated with any increase in cardiac risk in patients not receiving organic nitrates or nitrate donor drugs. Condition category: normal nutrient_topic: Sildenafil research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct clinical effect, and the drug is recorded separately from its N-desmethyl metabolite and its target enzyme from the homologous retinal PDE6. plain_language: In the living coronary circulation it did not change resting flow, though it improved the reserve the vessels could call on. organism: Human tissue_or_cell_type: Coronary circulation experimental_model: Review of the coronary vascular profile assembled from haemodynamic studies and retrospective analysis of the clinical trial programme limitations: A review rather than a new study, and the cardiac risk analyses are retrospective. It measures coronary flow in the intact circulation, where the organ bath records cannot. exposure: Sildenafil at therapeutic doses in men with coronary heart disease not taking nitrates evidence_span: {"source_cache": "artifacts/sildenafil-research/11351772.abstract.txt", "locator": "Indexed abstract; zero-based, end-exclusive Unicode character offsets", "file_sha256": "73a1ab2fa66fb9a6155ab7ccae7f405568ffdee07d4a09d61dc106e00c442711", "start_char": 0, "end_char": 1020, "text_sha256": "73a1ab2fa66fb9a6155ab7ccae7f405568ffdee07d4a09d61dc106e00c442711"} [sil-p11351772] Phosphodiesterase 5 inhibition: effects on the coronary vasculature. (2001). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11351772/ DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2001.tb11011.x
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