Efficacy of clonidine in a patient with refractory hypertension and chronic renal failure exhibiting neurovascular compression of the rostral ventrolateral medulla

Hypertens Res. 2009 Mar;32(3):227-8. doi: 10.1038/hr.2009.1. Epub 2009 Feb 13.

Authors

Satoshi Morimoto, Yasuko Aota, Takao Sakuma, Akira Ichibangase, Koshi Ikeda, Satoshi Sawada, Toshiji Iwasaka

PMID: 19262487
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.1

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use*
Blood Pressure / physiology
Clonidine / therapeutic use*
Creatinine / blood
Drug Resistance
Humans
Hypertension / drug therapy*
Hypertension / etiology*
Kidney Failure, Chronic / complications*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Medulla Oblongata / pathology*
Middle Aged
Nerve Compression Syndromes / complications
Nerve Compression Syndromes / pathology*

Substances

Antihypertensive Agents
Creatinine
Clonidine