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Acute nonhemodynamic pulmonary edema with nifedipine in primary pulmonary hypertension
T Prigogine1, Y Waterlot, P Gottignies
1Department of Medicine, Cl.E. Cavell, Brussels, Belgium.
Chest
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 34-year-old man with primary pulmonary hypertension developed acute nonhemodynamic pulmonary edema after a loading dose of nifedipine. Changes of the vascular permeability induced by the drug acting on the arteriolar wall of the capillary system could be an explanation.