ACCELERATED ACUTE CLONIDINE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME DURING CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY

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1 April 1981

journal article
research article
Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia

Vol. 53 (4) , 431-433
https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/53.4.431

Abstract

A patient with essential hypertension treated with clonidine developed accelerated acute clonidine withdrawal syndrome during coronary artery bypass surgery. There were recurring hypotensive and hypertensive episodes. The hypotension was associated with myocardial ischaemia, cardiac arrhythmia and ventricular fibrillation, and was treated successfully with i.v. calcium chloride given at the onset of hypotension.

Keywords

CLONIDINE
CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY
SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME
HYPOTENSION
HYPERTENSION
ESSENTIAL
CALCIUM SALT
HYPERTENSIVE EPISODE
SYMPTOM ONSET
VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION
MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA
CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA

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Effects of clonidine on vulnerability to fibrillation in the normal and ischemic canine ventricle
European Journal of Pharmacology, 1978
CLONIDINE WITHDRAWAL IN HYPERTENSION
The Lancet, 1977