Intravenous sildenafil acutely improves hemodynamic response to exercise in patients with connective tissue disease

• Andreas J. Rieth ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: a.rieth@kerckhoff-klinik.de

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-1192

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• Manuel J. Richter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pneumology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany, Department of Internal Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Germany

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• Alexander Berkowitsch,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany

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• Marc Frerix,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany

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• Ingo H. Tarner,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany

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• Veselin Mitrovic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany

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• Christian W. Hamm

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff-Klinik GmbH, Bad Nauheim, Germany, Department of Cardiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg, Giessen, Germany

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