Postoperative hypertension as an etiological factor in hematoma after rhytidectomy. Prevention with chlorpromazine.
Our experience strongly implicates postoperative "reactive hypertension" as a major etiological factor in hematoma formation in the face lift patient. This autonomic lability to post-surgical and emotional stress may be prevented and treated by the appropriate and timely administration of chlorpromazine.
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