Procardia

Procardia: A Clinician’s Guide to Nifedipine Use in Hypertension and Angina – Evidence-Based Review 1. Introduction: What is Procardia? Its Role in Modern Medicine Look, I’ve been in practice long enough to remember when calcium channel blockers were the new kids on the block. Procardia—the brand name for nifedipine—came onto the scene in the early 1980s and honestly, it changed how we managed hypertension and angina. It’s a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker, which means it’s primarily a vasodilator with minimal direct cardiac effects.