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| Year : 2014 | Volume
: 46
| Issue : 3 | Page : 348-349 |
Cilnidipine induced ankle edema
Vishal R Annil1, Annil Mahajan2, Vivek Mahajan1, Vijay Khajuria1, Zahid Gillani1
1 Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Government Medical College, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
2 General Medicine, Government Medical College, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Correspondence Address:
Vishal R Annil
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutic, Government Medical College, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0253-7613.132202
Cilnidipine is a 4 th generation dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker approved recently for the treatment of essential hypertension. It is not known to present with ankle edema like amlodipine. Moreover, it has been proposed as an alternative anti-hypertensive for patients with amlodipine-induced edema. We report a case of cilnidipine induced ankle edema.
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