Patients with altered cerebral autoregulation or intracranial compliance may be extremely susceptible to the sudden variations in MAP and cerebral vasodilation induced by sodium nitroprusside.
Calcium channel blocker (CCB)-related edema is quite common in clinical practice and can effectively deter a clinician from continued prescription of these drugs. Its etiology relates to a ...
From the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy. Autoregulation of cerebral blood flow (constant perfusion despite variations in blood pressure ...