Sir, Side-e¡ects of drugs are often thought to be the cause of certain skin manifestations, especially in cases of clear time-relationships. We describe here a patient in whom side-e¡ects of antihypertensive drugs were suspected, but since the speci¢c combination of telangiectasia of the cheeks and gingival hyperplasia had not been described previously some delay occurred before it was clear that the calcium antagonist amlodipine was responsible.

Amlodipine (Norvasc) is a potential cause of telangiectasia and gingival hyperplasia in children, but the specific combination of these side-effects was not previously described.

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Telangiectasia and gingival hyperplasia as side-effects of amlodipine (Norvasc) in a 3-year-old girl.

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