[Clinical use of nitroglycerin as an hypotensive agent during general anesthesia for caesarean section. Report of a case (author's transl)].

Nitroglycerin in aqueous solution has been used as hypotensive agent during a caesarean section, in a patient who presented an arterial hypertension not controled by administration of four antihypertensive agents (acebutolol, clonidine, dihydralazine, alpha-methyl-dopa). Nitroglycerin continuous infusion started two hours before caesarean section at the dose of one milligramme over one hour and stopped several hours after.