Wednesday, June11—Abnormal and disfiguring blood vessels growths in infants that also known as hemangiomas can be shrunk by a blood pressure drug, a new study suggests.
In two infants who had hemangioma, propranolol was used to treat heart conditions and it was found by the French researchers that the color and size of the hemangioma was diminished in both babies just in a day.
“We have accidentally found that propranolol could reduce the growth phase of hemangioma in these two babies,” stated Dr. Christine Leaute-Labreze of the department of pediatric dermatology at Bordeaux Children’s Hospital in France.
In the June 12 publication of the New England Journal of Medicine, the results of the study are going to be published.
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