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Withdrawal of nifedipine capsules: jeopardizing the treatment of acute severe hypertension in pregnancy? Australasian Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy

Brown, M.A.; McCowan, L.M.; North, R.A.; Walters, B.N.

Medical Journal of Australia 166(12): 640-643

1997

ISSN/ISBN: 0025-729X
PMID: 9216585
Document Number: 480990
Short-acting oral nifedipine has been withdrawn from the Australian market because of reports of its adverse effects after long-term treatment in non-pregnant patients with heart disease. This will have a major impact on the treatment of acutely hypertensive pregnant women, in whom the drug has proven to be safe, effective and easy to administer. Should pregnant women be forced to use less suitable agents, thus threatening their own and their babies' health?

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