As you all know, I am doing internship or housejob and it's really tiring but a good learning experience. Lemme share what I learnt / revised today!
In my medicine OPD, we start most newly diagnosed hypertensive patients on amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker. Many of the patients, after a few weeks of therapy, come back complaining of lower extremity edema. You check their electrolytes, LFT's and RFT's and they are all normal.
Then it dawns on you - Edema is a side effect of calcium channel antagonists like amlodipine!
You explain to them that it is a side effect of the medication, change the medication if it is really severe, otherwise you keep them on the same regimen.
It's nice to learn a fact from the book and then see it in practice :)
Oh and I made a small mnemonic for this - Dipines make your legs dip in watery edema! :D
That's all!
-IkaN
In my medicine OPD, we start most newly diagnosed hypertensive patients on amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker. Many of the patients, after a few weeks of therapy, come back complaining of lower extremity edema. You check their electrolytes, LFT's and RFT's and they are all normal.
Then it dawns on you - Edema is a side effect of calcium channel antagonists like amlodipine!
You explain to them that it is a side effect of the medication, change the medication if it is really severe, otherwise you keep them on the same regimen.
It's nice to learn a fact from the book and then see it in practice :)
Oh and I made a small mnemonic for this - Dipines make your legs dip in watery edema! :D
That's all!
-IkaN
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