"What goes up must immediately come down!". Which indication for short-acting nifedipine in children with arterial hypertension?

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-2

  Calvetta, A ^a   Martino, S ^a   von Vigier, R O ^b   Schmidtko, J ^b   Fossali, E ^a   Bianchetti, Mario G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Nifedipine

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DIAZOXIDE; HYDRALAZINE; LABETALOL; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENTOLAMINE;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INDICATION; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; NIFEDIPINE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0038081299     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-002-1010-3     Document Type: Editorial

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