Davis's Drug Guide

amyl nitrite

Contraindication/Precautions

Contraindicated in:

• Hypersensitivity

• Patients taking sildenafil, tadalafil, or vardenafil

• Severe anemia

• Cerebral hemorrhage

• Glaucoma

• Recent head trauma

• Pregnancy and lactation



Use Cautiously in:

• Hypotension

• Hypovolemia

• Constrictive pericarditis or cardiac tamponade

• Hyperthyroidism

• Recent MI

• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

• Geriatric patients (increased risk of orthostatic hypotension)



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