Side effects of sympatholytic antihypertensive drugs.

Side effects of sympatholytic antihypertensive drugs.

Antihypertensive drugs with pharmacological action due to sympatholytic activity have been second only to diuretics in their use and efficacy in normalizing blood pressure. Their pharmacological actions have resulted in the notable absence of chemical toxicity, but because of symptomatic side effects, their use has been limited relative to some of the newer antihypertensive agents. Most promine...

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other epidemiological characteristics and both lived in an area where hepatitis A is highly endemic. The low prevalence of anti-HAV in patients with thalassaemia is unlikely to be due to a resistance to the infection endowed by the disease, since an increased prevalence of anti-HBs as well as of antibodies to cytomegalovirus and other viruses has been found in such children." Thus regular blood...

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A 55-year-old Caucasian man with a history of thyrotoxicosis treated with carbimazole was admitted to hospital in January 1976 with epigastric pain and weight loss. Laparotomy disclosed an antral carcinoma of the stomach with extensive lymph node disease, and local resection was carried out. Histological examination confirmed a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma with mestastases in lymph nodes....