hydralazine may include headache, dizziness, flushing (redness and warmth of the skin), increased heart rate (tachycardia), and
Shortly after hydralazine administration, she developed a junctional tachycardia, which was considered to be due to preeclampsia. Subsequently
Hydralazine (Apresoline) is a medication prescribed to treat hypertensive crisis tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), and angina pectoris (chest pain).
Hydralazine is contraindicated in patients with severe tachycardia. It is recommended to use hydralazine with a beta blocker to enhance the antihypertensive.
Hydralazine, an arterial vasodilator, is used for the treatment of acute-onset and severe hypertension as well as heart failure during pregnancy and may be used orally or intravenously (119). Oral hydralazine in patients with preeclampsia was shown to have no effect on placental perfusion (120). Hydralazine is associated with reflex tachycardia
Consider combining with a beta-blocker and/or diuretic because hydralazine is associated with reflex tachycardia and fluid retention (Ref). For severe
As hydralazine can cause tachycardia, and sympathomimetics could enhance Hydralazine crosses the placenta. Use of Apresoline in pregnancy, before
NSAIDs may ↓ antihypertensive response. Beta blockers ↓ tachycardia from hydralazine (therapy may be combined for this reason). Metoprolol and propranolol ↑
Alternatively, hydralazine Impulses originating in the ventricle (e.g, ventricular tachycardia) alter patterns of electrical activation and reduce stroke
Sadly, disabled people don't just get ignored socially, they're also often not treated as people by carers who should know better. When I was in hospital for an operation for tachycardia I met a woman with CP who told me how a nurse had asked her husband, in her presence, a medical question she should have asked her directly, as though this quite intelligent woman was too dimwitted to answer for herself. The husband quite rightly said Why don't you ask her yourself?. The really stupid thing is that the question was one the husband could only have answered if his wife had told him the answer. Another lovely wheelchair-bound woman I got to know told me how she was forced onto a virtual starvation diet to control her weight (it's a lot harder to burn off calories in a wheelchair!).
I've also met one disabled person with an ugly selfish personality, although I think he probably had the personality before he got the disability by falling out of a building whilst rotten drunk.
Slightly off topic: I think they should not have changed terms from handicapped to disabled. After all, a horse with a handicap can still win a race, and a golfer with a handicap can still win the game, but disabled seems just too absolute.