Hyperpyrexia During Treatment with Methyldopa

Rheumatic Fever with Hyperpyrexia

G. C., an Austrian, aged 53 years, and employed as a fireman on an Austrian steamer, was admitted under my care into the Presidency General Hospital, Calcutta, on the 12th June 1893. He was brought to the hospital by one of the officers of the S.S. Aglai, who stated that G. 0. had been ill for ten days suffering from "fever" and pain and swelling in his joints. There was no previous history of ...

Methyldopa in the Treatment of Hypertension.

S ISCE t,he initial comm~~ni~ation of Oates etall reporting that methyldopa lowered blood pressure in hypertensive patients additional studies hal-e attested to the efficacy of this drug as an antihypertensi~e agent.‘-? Over the past 21/ years methyldopa (Aldome@) has been utilized in this clinic usuaily in conjunction with sulfonamide saluretic agents in the long-term treatment of hypertensive...

Maternal methyldopa treatment and neonatal blood pressure.

[Hyperpyrexia and death associated with general anaesthesia].

An evaluation of procaine in the treatment of malignant hyperpyrexia.

Procaine has been advocated in the treatment of malignant hyperpyrexia, whereas lignocaine has been shown to worsen the condition. Using muscle from patients susceptible to malignant hyperpyrexia in vitro, it has been demonstrated that muscle contracture can occur with procaine on its own, and in one patient the halothane-induced contracture was potentiated by procaine. In other patients the co...