Abstract
To the Editor.— Hypertensive following the ingestion of nasal deconde-tcongsuppressants containing phenylpropanolamine have been 2 orted.ase report describes both a transient hypertensive episode and cardiac arrhythmiasurring simultaneously in a young girl. She had been taking a proprietary antiobesityn containing phenylpropanolamine a period of five weeks. Report of a Case.— A 15-year-old girl was brought to the hospital following sudden, severe onset of occipital headache. The blood pressure was 188/112 mm Hg. During the next 20 minutes it rose to 210/130 mm Hg. She was an obese, very restless girl whose skin was extremely moist. She vomited frequently. There was no nuchality. Pupils were equal and slightly dilated; the optic fundiared normal. The heart was not enlarged. A grade 1systolic ejection murmur was heard along the left sternal border. Initial laboratory data included a hematocrit reading of 47%. white blood cell count was 9,620/cuh 70% neutrophils, 28% lymphocytes, and 2% monocytes. The
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