title: Antihypertensive drug therapy with captopril in children and adolescents.
abstract: Captopril was administered to three groups of hypertensive children and adolescents: patients with renal disease; neonates with umbilical artery related hypertension; and post-renal transplant patients. In older children with renal disease, increasing the captopril dose above 0.5 mg/kg did not improve the antihypertensive response. A maximal drug concentrations occurred one hour after dosing, and captopril concentration returned to predose levels by eight hours. Neonates responded to significantly lower doses of captopril (0.01-0.5 mg/kg) and the duration of response to higher doses appeared to be longer than that observed in older children. In post-renal transplant patients, blood pressure decreased after captopril in 94% of subjects, but in 62% a concomitant increase in serum creatinine was observed (correlation [r] = 0.55, p less than .02). This increase could not be correlated with renal biopsy histopathology. Thus, captopril has proven to be an effective antihypertensive agent in children over a broad age range and for a variety of clinical conditions.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002216:Captopril / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003404:Creatinine / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006977:Hypertension, Renal / Q000188:drug therapy; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000188:drug therapy; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D014469:Umbilical Arteries
chemical_list: D002216:Captopril; D003404:Creatinine