Brain Serotonin Neurotoxicity and Fenfluramine and Dexfenfluramine
Abstract
To the Editor.
—Dr McCannnd colleagues1 state "subsequently, several centers reported cases of PPH [primary pulmonary hypertension] in users of anorexigens, both amphet-aminelike drugs and serotonin uptake inhibitor agents." A similar statement implicating "amphetamine-type" agents in PPH also appeared in an earlier review by one of the authors.2 Unless rigorous data support such statements, it is incorrect to link entire classes of...