RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Rifampicin-induced hypertensive urgency: eyes see what the mind knows
JF BMJ Case Reports
JO BMJ Case Reports
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP e254699
DO 10.1136/bcr-2023-254699
VO 16
IS 5
A1 Gaba, Manish
A1 Kumar, Naveen
A1 Pandey, Ankita
A1 Dewan, Arun
YR 2023
UL http://casereports.bmj.com/content/16/5/e254699.abstract
AB A man had poor control of hypertension throughout 9 months of antituberculosis treatment. He consulted multiple physicians, who kept increasing this blood pressure medicine. Despite that, it was not controlled and he visited emergency many times with hypertensive urgency. When admitted in our care, he was off antituberculosis treatment for 5 days and his blood pressure was back to normal. We attributed it secondary to rifamipicin-induced enzyme induction. Tuberculosis and hypertension both being very common diseases, we report this case to highlight lack of awareness about these important and easily preventable drug interactions.