“…These unpleasant side-effects of the drug disappeared within the next 4 h. In this subject, plasma bufuralol concentrations were unusually high and carbinol concentrations low. This observation and a similar case previously reported (Balant et al, 1976) suggest a pharmacogenetic anomaly for aliphatic hydroxylation of bufuralol (Balant et al, 1978b), as recently described for alicyclic hydroxylation of debrisoquine (Mahgoub et al, 1977;Price Evans et al, 1980), N-oxidation of sparteine (Eichelbaum et al, 1979);Bertilsson et al, 1980), hydroxylation of phenytoin (Sloan et al, 1981), or other oxidated drugs (Sloan et al, 1978).…”