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Clinical Features

The Management of Acute Hypertension in Patients With Renal Dysfunction: Labetalol or Nicardipine?

Joseph Varon Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX; Dorrington Medical Associates, Galveston, TXCorrespondence[email protected]
, MD,
Karina M. Soto-Ruiz Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
, MD,
Brigitte M. Baumann Department of Emergency Medicine, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ
, MD,
Pierre Borczuk Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
, MD,
Chad M. Cannon Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
, MD,
Abhinav Chandra Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, CA
, MD,
David Martin Cline Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
, MD,
Deborah B. Diercks Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Davis, CA
, MD,
Brian Hiestand Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
, MD,
Amy Hsu Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
, MS,
Preeti Jois-Bilowich Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
, MD,
Brian Kaminski Department of Emergency Medicine, Toledo Hospital, Toledo, OH
, DO,
Phillip Levy Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
, MD,
Richard M. Nowak Department of Emergency Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
, MD,
Jon W. Schrock Department of Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
, MD &
W. Frank Peacock Department of Emergency Medicine, Ben Taub General Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
, MD show all
Pages 124-130 | Published online: 13 Mar 2015

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