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Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors
Article published in Urologia Polska 2004/57/1.

authors

Tomasz Jakubczyk, Krzysztof Pych, Piotr Kryst, Andrzej Borkowski
Katedra i Klinika Urologii Akademii Medycznej w Warszawie
Kierownik kliniki: prof. dr hab. Andrzej Borkowski

keywords

phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors, erectile dysfunction

summary

It has been over 5 years since March, 27th, 1998, when sildenafil (Viagra, Pfizer Inc.) - the first selective, given orally to men with erectile dysfunction phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor gained FDA approval. From that time sildenafil was used by over 20 million of men all over the world. The number of sold tablets exceeded a billion, while at least 2000 papers and abstracts were published on the basis of 120 clinical trials. Nowadays other agents inhibiting phosphodiesterase type 5, eg. tadalafil (Cialis, Lilly ICOS) and vardenafil (Levitra, Bayer) are available. The paper attempts to summarise current knowledge on phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors and analyze their features, influencing advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

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correspondence

Tomasz Jakubczyk
Katedra i Klinika Urologu AM
ul. Linleya 4
02-005 Warszawa