Improvement of Erectile Dysfunction by Fluvastatin in Patients With Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine the effect of fluvastatin on penile arterial blood flow and erectile function in patients with arteriogenic ED and cardiovascular risk factors.

Timeline

Start

2006-10

Primary completion

—

Completion

2007-12

Publications

• Background Diagnosis and treatment of early melanoma. NIH Consensus Development Conference. January 27-29, 1992. Consens Statement. 1992 Jan 27-29;10(1):1-25.
• Background Kinsey AC, Pomeroy WR, Martin CE. Sexual behavior in the human male. 1948. Am J Public Health. 2003 Jun;93(6):894-8. doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.6.894. No abstract available.
• Background Virag R, Bouilly P, Frydman D. Is impotence an arterial disorder? A study of arterial risk factors in 440 impotent men. Lancet. 1985 Jan 26;1(8422):181-4. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(85)92023-9.
• Background Feldman HA, Goldstein I, Hatzichristou DG, Krane RJ, McKinlay JB. Impotence and its medical and psychosocial correlates: results of the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. J Urol. 1994 Jan;151(1):54-61. doi: 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)34871-1.
• Background Braun M, Wassmer G, Klotz T, Reifenrath B, Mathers M, Engelmann U. Epidemiology of erectile dysfunction: results of the 'Cologne Male Survey'. Int J Impot Res. 2000 Dec;12(6):305-11. doi: 10.1038/sj.ijir.3900622.
• Background Grimm RH Jr, Grandits GA, Prineas RJ, McDonald RH, Lewis CE, Flack JM, Yunis C, Svendsen K, Liebson PR, Elmer PJ. Long-term effects on sexual function of five antihypertensive drugs and nutritional hygienic treatment in hypertensive men and women. Treatment of Mild Hypertension Study (TOMHS). Hypertension. 1997 Jan;29(1 Pt 1):8-14. doi: 10.1161/01.hyp.29.1.8.
• Background Wei M, Macera CA, Davis DR, Hornung CA, Nankin HR, Blair SN. Total cholesterol and high density lipoprotein cholesterol as important predictors of erectile dysfunction. Am J Epidemiol. 1994 Nov 15;140(10):930-7. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117181.
• Background Chitaley K, Wingard CJ, Clinton Webb R, Branam H, Stopper VS, Lewis RW, Mills TM. Antagonism of Rho-kinase stimulates rat penile erection via a nitric oxide-independent pathway. Nat Med. 2001 Jan;7(1):119-22. doi: 10.1038/83258.
• Background Buyukafsar K, Un I. Effects of the Rho-kinase inhibitors, Y-27632 and fasudil, on the corpus cavernosum from diabetic mice. Eur J Pharmacol. 2003 Jul 11;472(3):235-8. doi: 10.1016/s0014-2999(03)01905-8.
• Background Wassmann S, Ribaudo N, Faul A, Laufs U, Bohm M, Nickenig G. Effect of atorvastatin 80 mg on endothelial cell function (forearm blood flow) in patients with pretreatment serum low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels <130 mg/dl. Am J Cardiol. 2004 Jan 1;93(1):84-8. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.09.018.
• Background Nangle MR, Cotter MA, Cameron NE. Effects of rosuvastatin on nitric oxide-dependent function in aorta and corpus cavernosum of diabetic mice: relationship to cholesterol biosynthesis pathway inhibition and lipid lowering. Diabetes. 2003 Sep;52(9):2396-402. doi: 10.2337/diabetes.52.9.2396.
• Background Rosen RC, Cappelleri JC, Smith MD, Lipsky J, Pena BM. Development and evaluation of an abridged, 5-item version of the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF-5) as a diagnostic tool for erectile dysfunction. Int J Impot Res. 1999 Dec;11(6):319-26. doi: 10.1038/sj.ijir.3900472.
• Background Speel TG, van Langen H, Wijkstra H, Meuleman EJ. Penile duplex pharmaco-ultrasonography revisited: revalidation of the parameters of the cavernous arterial response. J Urol. 2003 Jan;169(1):216-20. doi: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)64071-2.
• Background Aversa A, Isidori AM, Spera G, Lenzi A, Fabbri A. Androgens improve cavernous vasodilation and response to sildenafil in patients with erectile dysfunction. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2003 May;58(5):632-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01764.x.
• Background Laufs U, Wassmann S, Hilgers S, Ribaudo N, Bohm M, Nickenig G. Rapid effects on vascular function after initiation and withdrawal of atorvastatin in healthy, normocholesterolemic men. Am J Cardiol. 2001 Dec 1;88(11):1306-7. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(01)02095-1. No abstract available.

Drugs

Indications