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The symptoms of two children with erythromelalgia were relieved promptly by the intravenous administration of sodium nitroprusside (1–5 μg/kg/min). The elevated blood pressure of one of them was also easily controlled with this drug and did not recur during the follow-up period. Taken together with our previous experience, we believe sodium nitroprusside administration to be a treatment of choice for erythromelalgia, in which the constant pain and burning sensation make the patient extremely restless.
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Özsoylu, S., Coskun, T. Sodium nitroprusside treatment in erythromelalgia. Eur J Pediatr 141, 185–187 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00443224
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