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FDA Approves Drug to Treat Dangerously Low Blood Pressure

Giapreza
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company’s Giapreza has received FDA approval. (Source: Reuters.com)

Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—December 21, 2017

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By: Sandy Walsh

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Giapreza (angiotensin II) injection for intravenous infusion to increase blood pressure in adults with septic or other distributive shock.

“Shock, the inability to maintain blood flow to vital tissues, can result in organ failure and death,” said Norman Stockbridge, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Cardiovascular and…

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