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Pulmonary hypertension and fenfluramine
H M Pouwels1, J L Smeets, E C Cheriex
1Dept of Pulmonary Diseases, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands.
The European Respiratory Journal
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
Fenfluramine is a widely prescribed anorectic drug as adjuvant therapy for obesity. Pulmonary vascular hypertension after use of fenfluramine is rarely reported. We present a patient with pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure after treatment with fenfluramine. Pulmonary hypertension resolved after withdrawal of the drug.