Academic Editor: John Lynn Jefferies
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a major concern in heart failure (HF) due its high
prevalence as well as its negative impact on the quality of life, this condition
being usually unrecognized and thus untreated. A number of possible causes might
contribute to the above mentioned tight association, i.e., shared risk factors,
comorbidities and several physiologic HF abnormalities such as impaired exercise
tolerance, psychogenic factors and neurohumoral, metabolic and vascular changes.
Medications have been blamed for playing also a pivotal role in the ED occurrence
and, particularly, the