Intraarterial nitroprusside treatment for ergotism
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Ergotism unresponsive to multiple therapeutic modalities, including sodium nitroprusside, resulting in limb loss.
Unlike epidemics in past centuries, patients suffering from peripheral vascular ischemia related to ergotism now rarely lose a limb because of vasodilator therapies. We report a patient with ischemia from ergotamine tartrate who failed to recover with medical therapy, resulting in limb amputation.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.131.6.1090