KROK 1 2012 – Question 182 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology

For relief of hypertensive crisis a doctor administered a patient a drug that apart from antihypertensive effect has also sedative, spasmolytic and anticonvulsive effect. The drug was taken parenterally. When it is taken enterally it acts as a laxative and cholagogue. What drug was administered?

  1. A. Apressin
  2. B. Dibasolum
  3. C. Magnesium sulfate
  4. D. Reserpine
  5. E. No-spa
Hint

Think about how the route of administration changes where the drug acts: systemic effects after injection, but only local actions in the gut after swallowing.

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