Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection?

We report the development of low flow priapism in three patients related to simultaneous consumption of sildenafil with pomegranate (Punica granatum) (POM) juice. There were no other concurrent diseases, intake of drugs, and chemicals or other risk factors in these patients. We want to create awaren...

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Autores principales: Senthilkumaran, Subramanian, Balamurugan, Namasivayam, Suresh, Ponuswamy, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22629009
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.95560
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author Senthilkumaran, Subramanian
Balamurugan, Namasivayam
Suresh, Ponuswamy
Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
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description We report the development of low flow priapism in three patients related to simultaneous consumption of sildenafil with pomegranate (Punica granatum) (POM) juice. There were no other concurrent diseases, intake of drugs, and chemicals or other risk factors in these patients. We want to create awareness among patients and practitioners for recognition and timely intervention. Probable mechanisms are highlighted.
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spelling pubmed-33556942012-05-24 Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection? Senthilkumaran, Subramanian Balamurugan, Namasivayam Suresh, Ponuswamy Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah Urol Ann Case Report We report the development of low flow priapism in three patients related to simultaneous consumption of sildenafil with pomegranate (Punica granatum) (POM) juice. There were no other concurrent diseases, intake of drugs, and chemicals or other risk factors in these patients. We want to create awareness among patients and practitioners for recognition and timely intervention. Probable mechanisms are highlighted. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3355694/ /pubmed/22629009 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.95560 Text en Copyright: © Urology Annals http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection?
title Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection?
title_full Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection?
title_fullStr Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection?
title_full_unstemmed Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection?
title_short Priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: Is there a connection?
title_sort priapism, pomegranate juice, and sildenafil: is there a connection?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22629009
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7796.95560
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