Conditions: Hypertension
Keywords: High Blood Pressure Hypertension Renal Transplantation Kidney Transplantation
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 26
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The drug lisinopril is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of high blood pressure, heart failure, and acute heart attacks in adult patients. In children over 6 years of age, lisinopril is approved for the treatment of high blood pressure. Lisinopril is in a group of medications called angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE). ACE inhibitors such as lisinopril work by decreasing certain chemicals that tighten the blood vessels so blood flows more smoothly and the heart can pump blood more efficiently.

There is some information available about how children with high blood pressure absorb, distribute, metabolize, and eliminate lisinopril (this information about medication processing by the body is called pharmacokinetic data). However, there is no information about how children with high blood pressure who have received a kidney transplant process lisinopril. In addition to decreasing blood pressure, investigators believe that lisinopril may help kidney transplants work longer by reducing the activity of chemicals made by cells in kidney transplants that can lead to inflammation and injury. Such benefits have not been found with another group of blood pressure medications called calcium channel blockers, which are the most commonly used medication group to control high blood pressure in children after a kidney transplant. A clinical trial will be conducted in the future to compare which medication group helps kidney transplants in children last longer. To guide the selection of the best dose to test in future studies, investigators in this study will try to determine the safety profile, dose tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of lisinopril in children and adolescents (2-17 years of age) who have received a kidney transplant and have high blood pressure.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Participants will receive study medication for 14±3 days at a dose 0.1 mg/kg/day arm 2: Participants will receive study medication for 14±3 days at a dose 0.2 mg/kg/day arm 3: Participants will initially receive study medication at 0.2 mg/kg/day for 5±2 days. If blood tests exclude drug-related toxicity, then the lisinopril dose will be increased to 0.4 mg/kg/day and participants will continue to complete the 14±3 day Treatment Period.

Interventions: intervention 1: Lisinopril
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Subjects will be randomized to Low, Medium, or High dose of Lisinopril

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