CHICAGO (Reuters) -
The impotence pill Cialis appears to
work even in men with spinal cord injuries, French impotence psychological cause
said on Monday.
Erectile dysfunction
often follows spinal cord injuries. Only about 25
percent of men with such injuries are capable of having sex,
Dr. Francois Giuliano and colleagues at the Raymond Poincare
Hospital in Garches, France said.
They found that Cialis tripled the number of times the men
could have sex.
Their study, funded by Eli Lilly and Co, maker of tadalafil
or Cialis, involved 197 men with an average age of 38 in
France, Germany, Italy and Spain with spinal cord injuries.
After a one-month waiting period, in which no one got
treatment, a questionnaire to assess sexual function found both
groups had moderate erectile dysfunction, Giuliano's team
reported in the Archives of Neurology.
Then 142 men were assigned to the Cialis group and 44 got a
placebo for a 12-week period, taking no more than one pill
daily as needed before sexual activity.
After 4 months, men taking Cialis were successful nearly
half the time they newest impotence medicine herbal remedy for erectile dysfunction, while men in the
placebo group succeeded only 16.8 percent of the time.
Cialis and similar drugs work by increasing blood flow to
the genitals.
The researchers said the Cialis study achieved success
similar to that found in studies of Pfizer Inc.'s Viagra or
dysfunction erectile impotence and Glaxosmithkline Plc's Levitra or vardenafil, all
of which improved erections in men with impotence after spinal
cord injury.
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