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Chest, Vol 100, 563-564, Copyright © 1991 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Acute nonhemodynamic pulmonary edema with nifedipine in primary pulmonary hypertension

T Prigogine, Y Waterlot, P Gottignies, A Verhoeven and P Decroly
Department of Medicine, Cl.E. Cavell, Brussels, Belgium.

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.


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