Which is true about treatment of hypeensive crisis with encephalopathy in a patient with a pheochromocytoma.
Correct Answer: Treatment with phentolamine should be staed with low-dose phenoxybenzamine to be titrated upward. Surgery should be done in 2 to 3 weeks once blood pressure is below 160/100 mmHg
Description: Option A- Not done as the patient may require pre-operative or intra-operative management. Option C > option B- As first we will stabilize the patient and then surgery can be done post stabilizing the patient. Option D- b is given but only after a Only after a blocker
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