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:iranian journal of public health
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jiana shi dept. of pharmacy, tongde hospital of zhejiang province, hangzhou, china ; dept. of pharmacology, toxicology and biochemical pharmaceutics, zhejiang university, hangzhou, china.
xiaojun wang dept. of pharmacy, tongde hospital of zhejiang province, hangzhou, china.
yin ying dept. of pharmacy, tongde hospital of zhejiang province, hangzhou, china.
lin xu dept. of cardiovascular medicine, tongde hospital of zhejiang province, hangzhou, china.
danyan zhu dept. of pharmacology, toxicology and biochemical pharmaceutics, zhejiang university, hangzhou, china.
mirtazapine is a new antidepressant that can increase noradrenergic and serotonergic neurotransmission. it is also a postsynaptic antagonist of 5-ht2 and 5-ht3. in addition, it has only a weak affinity for 5-ht1 receptors and has very weak muscarinic anticholinergic and histamine (h1) antagonist properties. we report a case of hypertensive urgency that ensued after a patient took a single low d...