The revised guidelines for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension caution against the use of calcium channel blockers--used to combat high blood pressure--in unstable patients.

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The revised guidelines for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension caution against the use of calcium channel blockers--used to combat high blood pressure--in unstable patients. "When they are used in patients with PAH whose narrowed pulmonary arteries are not caused by dynamic vessel...