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Dihydralazine

An antihypertensive vasodilator of the hydrazinophthalazine family, with actions and uses similar to those of hydralazine: it widens small arteries and is used for hypertension, also intravenously in pre-eclampsia. This family brings together other impurities.

Did you know?The prefix di- means it carries two hydrazine groups on the phthalazine ring (1,4-dihydrazinophthalazine). And its family was born by chance: the blood pressure effect of hydralazine was discovered during a search for an antimalarial.