Abstract
It was considered that the first dose reaction occurring with prazosin may have been due either to hypotension or to a specific reduction in cerebral blood flow. The development of a quantitative non-invasion nuclear medicine technique for cerebral flow has now made it possible to investigate the effects of prazosin on cerebral blood flow in hypertensive patients. This double-blind study showed a significant decrease in BP and a small just significant increase in cerebral blood flow following a single 1-mg dose of prazosin, when compared with a placebo. From these results, it is unlikely that the first dose reactions which occurred with prazosin were due to a specific reduction in cerebral blood flow.
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