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Prognosis of Treated and Untreated Hypertension

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Book cover Pharmacology of Antihypertensive Therapeutics

Part of the book series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology ((HEP,volume 93 / 1))

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It is worth recalling, not only as a mere curiosity, that as recently as the student years of today’s senior physicians, small doses of phenobarbitone were the best available treatment for hypertension. Phlebotomy and leeches were considered the last recourse in intractable cases, at least in some parts of Central Europe, when combinations of hypnotics, garlic extracts, and mistletoe failed to reduce blood pressure, and the patient, bleeding severely from the nose, was irreparably heading towards uremic death.

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  1. German Institute for High Blood Pressure Research and Department of Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 366, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    Detlev Ganten M.D, Ph.D.

  2. Medical College of Ohio, CS10008, 300 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, OH, 43699, USA

    Patrick J. Mulrow M.D.

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Strasser, T. (1990). Prognosis of Treated and Untreated Hypertension. In: Ganten, D., Mulrow, P.J. (eds) Pharmacology of Antihypertensive Therapeutics. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, vol 93 / 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74209-5_21

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