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- Title
Treatment of hypertension in patients with pre-eclampsia: a prospective parallel-group study comparing dihydralazine with urapidil.
- Authors
Wacker, J; Werner, P; Walter-Sack, I; Bastert, G
- Abstract
Background.The primary objective of treatment in women with severe hypertension and pre-eclampsia is to prevent complications such as encephalopathy and haemorrhage. In many countries dihydralazine is considered the drug of choice for treating hypertension in pregnancy, because it now has been used safely for about 30 years, and the introduction of a new drug in pregnancy is a difficult task with partially unknown hazards. In some other countries combined alpha- and beta- blockers are also used. Taking into account that some patients with pre-eclampsia do not respond to dihydralazine and the drug has serious side-effects like headache and reflex tachycardia, there is some need for developing alternative treatment strategies using drugs that are more adequate for pregnancy than dihydralazine.
- Publication
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 1998, Vol 13, Issue 2, p318
- ISSN
0931-0509
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027825