enalapril has been researched along with Chemical-and-Drug-Induced-Liver-Injury* in 26 studies
4 review(s) available for enalapril and Chemical-and-Drug-Induced-Liver-Injury
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DILIrank: the largest reference drug list ranked by the risk for developing drug-induced liver injury in humans.
Topics: Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Databases, Factual; Drug Labeling; Humans; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Risk | 2016 |
Drug-induced liver damage -- a three-year study of patients from one gastroenterological department.
The aim of our study was to analyze drug-induced liver disease over a 3-year period in one gastroenterological department.. International consensus standard definitions and criteria for assessing causality of adverse drug reactions were applied to all patients with abnormal hepatic test results.. Drugs were implicated in hepatic injury in 14 patients (8 females) in whom causal relationship between drug and liver disease was definite or highly probable. The drugs responsible were amoxicillin with clavulanic acid (3 cases), fluvastatin and pravastatin (3 cases), antituberculous drugs (2 cases), estrogens, roxithromycin, asacol, satolol, enalapril and thiamazol. A total of 78.6% (11 cases) were classified as hepatocellular or mixed hepatitis, while cholestatic injury was found in 21.4% (3 cases). There were no lethal or severe (prothrombin < 50%) hepatic drug reactions. In 13 patients the course of liver disease after withdrawal of the offensive drug was either acute or protracted, while in one patient there was chronic cholestasis (>3 years) resulting from injury to interlobular bile ducts by amoxicllin with clavulanic acid.. A thorough history of drug intake should be taken in all patients presenting with abnormal hepatic test results. Amoxicillin & clavulanic acid, cholesterol-lowering and antituberculin drugs were the most frequent hepatotoxic factors in our patients. In a majority of cases the liver injury was not severe, and resolved after prompt withdrawal of the responsible drug. Topics: Adult; Aged; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal; Anticholesteremic Agents; Antitubercular Agents; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Comorbidity; Enalapril; Estrogens; Fatty Liver; Female; Humans; Liver Diseases; Male; Mesalamine; Middle Aged | 2002 |
[Enalapril (Reniten)-associated toxic hepatitis].
A 52-year-old female was hospitalized with malaise, pruritus, jaundice, abdominal discomfort and vomiting. For 20 weeks she had been taking enalapril (Reniten) for hypertension. Serum aminotransferases and bilirubin were highly elevated with prolonged thromboplastin time. There was no evidence for extrahepatic cholestasis in ultrasonography. Serological investigations for a viral etiology of the liver failure were negative and the patient had no risk factors for viral hepatitis or exposure to hepatotoxic substances. Liver puncture revealed hepatitis of the fulminant viral hepatitis type, a picture that can be seen in a drug-induced hepatitis. The complete recovery of liver function after cessation of enalapril administration suggests acute toxic hepatitis due to enalapril. A metabolically mediated idiosyncratic reaction is the most plausible. Potential mechanisms of enalapril-induced hepatotoxicity are discussed and the current literature is surveyed. Topics: Bilirubin; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Female; Humans; Hypertension; Liver; Middle Aged; Transaminases | 1994 |
Hepatotoxicity associated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.
To review published reports of hepatotoxicity associated with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and to explore possible mechanisms of injury.. Published reports of hepatotoxicity associated with use of ACE inhibitors and investigations that suggest potential mechanisms of injury.. Nineteen cases of ACE-inhibitor-associated hepatotoxicity are presented. Early theories regarding mechanisms are reviewed. Laboratory investigations of hepatic effects of eicosanoids on hepatic function are reviewed and a novel mechanism by which ACE inhibitors may cause hepatic injury is postulated.. Hepatotoxicity, usually cholestatic in nature, has been reported with captopril, enalapril, and lisinopril use. Apparent cross-reactivity has been reported twice. Potential mechanisms of injury include idiopathic hypersensitivity and modulation of eicosanoid metabolism by inhibition of kininase II and subsequent increased hepatic bradykinin activity. Mediation via altered eicosanoid metabolism provides a plausible explanation for cross-reactivity among ACE inhibitors. Hepatotoxicity resolves if ACE inhibitors are stopped but may progress to liver failure if treatment is continued. Topics: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Captopril; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Time Factors | 1993 |
22 other study(ies) available for enalapril and Chemical-and-Drug-Induced-Liver-Injury
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Establishment of a mouse model of enalapril-induced liver injury and investigation of the pathogenesis.
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a major concern in drug development and clinical drug therapy. Since the underlying mechanisms of DILI have not been fully understood in most cases, elucidation of the hepatotoxic mechanisms of drugs is expected. Although enalapril (ELP), an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, has been reported to cause liver injuries with a low incidence in humans, the precise mechanisms by which ELP causes liver injury remains unknown. In this study, we established a mouse model of ELP-induced liver injury and analyzed the mechanisms of its hepatotoxicity. Mice that were administered ELP alone did not develop liver injury, and mice that were pretreated with a synthetic glucocorticoid dexamethasone (DEX) and a glutathione synthesis inhibitor l-buthionine-(S,R)-sulfoximine (BSO) exhibited liver steatosis without significant increase in plasma alanine aminotransferase (ALT). In mice pretreated with DEX and BSO, ALT levels were significantly increased after ELP administration, suggesting that hepatic steatosis sensitized the liver to ELP hepatotoxicity. An immunohistochemical analysis showed that the numbers of myeloperoxidase-positive cells that infiltrated the liver were significantly increased in the mice administered DEX/BSO/ELP. The levels of oxidative stress-related factors, including hepatic heme oxygenase-1, serum hydrogen peroxide and hepatic malondialdehyde, were elevated in the mice administered DEX/BSO/ELP. The involvement of oxidative stress in ELP-induced liver injury was further supported by the observation that tempol, an antioxidant agent, ameliorated ELP-induced liver injury. In conclusion, we successfully established a model of ELP-induced liver injury in DEX-treated steatotic mice and demonstrated that oxidative stress and neutrophil infiltration are involved in the pathogenesis of ELP-induced liver injury. Topics: Animals; Antioxidants; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Disease Models, Animal; Enalapril; Glutathione; Glutathione Disulfide; Liver; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred BALB C; Neutrophils; Oxidative Stress | 2017 |
Characteristic molecular and proteomic signatures of drug-induced liver injury in a rat model.
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a major safety concern during drug development and remains one of the main reasons for withdrawal of drugs from the market. Although it is crucial to develop methods that will detect potential hepatotoxicity of drug candidates as early and as quickly as possible, there is still a lack of sensitive and specific biomarkers for DILI that consequently leads to a scarcity of reliable hepatotoxic data. Hence, in this study, we assessed characteristic molecular signatures in rat liver treated with drugs (pyrazinamide, ranitidine, enalapril, carbamazepine and chlorpromazine) that are known to cause DILI in humans. Unsupervised hierarchical clustering analysis of transcriptome changes induced by DILI-causing drugs resulted in three different subclusters on dendrogram, i.e., hepatocellular, cholestatic and mixed type of DILI at early time points (2 days), and multiclassification analysis suggested 31 genes as discernible markers for each DILI pattern. Further analysis for characteristic molecular signature of each DILI pattern provided a molecular basis for different modes of DILI action. A proteomics study of the same rat livers was used to confirm the results, and the two sets of data showed 60 matching classifiers. In conclusion, the data of different DILI-causing drug treatments from genomic analysis in a rat model suggest that DILI-specific molecular signatures can discriminate different patterns of DILI at an early exposure time point, and that they provide useful information for mechanistic studies that may lead to a better understanding of the molecular basis of DILI. Topics: Animals; Biomarkers; Carbamazepine; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Chlorpromazine; Disease Models, Animal; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; Enalapril; Gene Expression; Liver; Male; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Proteomics; Pyrazinamide; Ranitidine; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Transcriptome | 2015 |
Effects of treatment with enalapril on hepatotoxicity induced by acetaminophen in mice.
There is a current need for new therapeutic options for acetaminophen (APAP)-induced hepatotoxicity. Herein, we assessed the effects of prophylactic and therapeutic treatment with the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, enalapril, on APAP-caused hepatotoxicity. Male and female C57BL/6 J mice were used, and hepatotoxicity was induced by a single application of APAP (400 mg/kg, i.p.). Macroscopic and histological liver alterations, serum alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) activity, liver catalase activity (CAT), reduced glutathione concentrations (GSH), hepatic measurement of neutrophil migration (myeloperoxidase, MPO activity), and caspase-3 liver expression were evaluated. The prophylactic and the therapeutic treatments with enalapril were able to markedly reduce the macroscopic and histological liver alterations as well as the caspase-3 immunopositivity. Both schedules of treatment were also effective in reducing GSH concentrations as well as neutrophil migration. Conversely, only the pre-treatment (but not the post-administration) with enalapril significantly reversed APAP-induced CAT decrease. Furthermore, the pre- or the post-treatment with enalapril largely reduced ALT and AST serum activity in APAP-intoxicated mice. The hepatoprotective effects of enalapril were comparable to those obtained with the clinically used compound N-acetylcysteine (NAC) when given in a therapeutic regimen. Data obtained with the prophylactic protocol of treatment might indicate that individuals under treatment with ACE inhibitors are less susceptible to the toxic effects of APAP. Additionally, the therapeutic approach allows us to suggest that enalapril might represent an innovative tool for treating APAP intoxication. Topics: Acetaminophen; Acetylcysteine; Alanine Transaminase; Analgesics, Non-Narcotic; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Animals; Aspartate Aminotransferases; Catalase; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Female; Glutathione; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL | 2012 |
FDA-approved drug labeling for the study of drug-induced liver injury.
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a leading cause of drugs failing during clinical trials and being withdrawn from the market. Comparative analysis of drugs based on their DILI potential is an effective approach to discover key DILI mechanisms and risk factors. However, assessing the DILI potential of a drug is a challenge with no existing consensus methods. We proposed a systematic classification scheme using FDA-approved drug labeling to assess the DILI potential of drugs, which yielded a benchmark dataset with 287 drugs representing a wide range of therapeutic categories and daily dosage amounts. The method is transparent and reproducible with a potential to serve as a common practice to study the DILI of marketed drugs for supporting drug discovery and biomarker development. Topics: Animals; Benchmarking; Biomarkers, Pharmacological; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Drug Design; Drug Labeling; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Humans; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Reproducibility of Results; United States; United States Food and Drug Administration | 2011 |
Translating clinical findings into knowledge in drug safety evaluation--drug induced liver injury prediction system (DILIps).
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is a significant concern in drug development due to the poor concordance between preclinical and clinical findings of liver toxicity. We hypothesized that the DILI types (hepatotoxic side effects) seen in the clinic can be translated into the development of predictive in silico models for use in the drug discovery phase. We identified 13 hepatotoxic side effects with high accuracy for classifying marketed drugs for their DILI potential. We then developed in silico predictive models for each of these 13 side effects, which were further combined to construct a DILI prediction system (DILIps). The DILIps yielded 60-70% prediction accuracy for three independent validation sets. To enhance the confidence for identification of drugs that cause severe DILI in humans, the "Rule of Three" was developed in DILIps by using a consensus strategy based on 13 models. This gave high positive predictive value (91%) when applied to an external dataset containing 206 drugs from three independent literature datasets. Using the DILIps, we screened all the drugs in DrugBank and investigated their DILI potential in terms of protein targets and therapeutic categories through network modeling. We demonstrated that two therapeutic categories, anti-infectives for systemic use and musculoskeletal system drugs, were enriched for DILI, which is consistent with current knowledge. We also identified protein targets and pathways that are related to drugs that cause DILI by using pathway analysis and co-occurrence text mining. While marketed drugs were the focus of this study, the DILIps has a potential as an evaluation tool to screen and prioritize new drug candidates or chemicals, such as environmental chemicals, to avoid those that might cause liver toxicity. We expect that the methodology can be also applied to other drug safety endpoints, such as renal or cardiovascular toxicity. Topics: Animals; Anti-Infective Agents; Anti-Inflammatory Agents; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Databases, Factual; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Humans; Liver; Models, Biological; Predictive Value of Tests | 2011 |
Pharmacologic inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system did not attenuate hepatic toxicity induced by carbon tetrachloride in rats.
The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) subserves vital physiological functions and also implicated in certain pathological states. Modulation of this system has been proposed in recent studies to be a promising strategy in treating liver fibrosis. We investigated the effect of the pharmacologic inhibition of RAS with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker in CCl(4)-induced liver injury with a view to ascertaining the chemopreventive benefit. Fifty-six Wistar albino rats were divided into eight experimental groups of seven rats/group. Groups 1-4 received normal saline (10 ml/kg), enalapril (0.6 mg/kg), losartan (1.4 mg/kg) and CCl(4) (80 mg/kg), respectively. Groups 5-8 were pretreated with enalapril (0.3 mg/kg), enalapril (0.6 mg/kg), losartan (0.7 mg/kg) and losartan (1.4 mg/kg) 1 hour before CCl(4) administration. Experiment lasted 11 days and dosing was via oral route. Rats were killed 24 hours after the last treatment. Serum activities of alkaline phosphatase, aspartate and alanine aminotransferases increased significantly (p < 0.05) by 46.0%, 90.6% and 122.3%, respectively, with severe hepatic centrilobular necrosis, fatty infiltration and increase in liver weight (p < 0.05) in the CCl(4)-treated rats. Enalapril (0.6 mg/kg) and losartan (1.4 mg/kg) significantly (p < 0.05) increased aspartate aminotransferase activity by 37.0% and 94.7% and produced mild centrilobular and periportal hepatic necrosis, respectively, with enalapril significantly (p < 0.05) increasing liver weight. Serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, albumin and total protein did not change significantly in these rats. Also, glutathione, malondialdehyde and uric acid levels were not significantly altered. Enalapril and losartan failed to attenuate liver injury associated with CCl(4) treatment. Although both drugs did not significantly alter serum biochemistry in the CCl(4)-treated rats, they however produced slight elevations in biomarkers of liver function and appear to worsen liver histopathology. Overall, the chemopreventive benefits of RAS inhibitors in liver disease remain doubtful and should be used with caution during hepatic dysfunction. Topics: Alanine Transaminase; Alkaline Phosphatase; Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Animals; Aspartate Aminotransferases; Carbon Tetrachloride; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Glutathione; Liver; Losartan; Malondialdehyde; Organ Size; Rats; Rats, Wistar | 2011 |
Cheminformatics analysis of assertions mined from literature that describe drug-induced liver injury in different species.
Drug-induced liver injury is one of the main causes of drug attrition. The ability to predict the liver effects of drug candidates from their chemical structures is critical to help guide experimental drug discovery projects toward safer medicines. In this study, we have compiled a data set of 951 compounds reported to produce a wide range of effects in the liver in different species, comprising humans, rodents, and nonrodents. The liver effects for this data set were obtained as assertional metadata, generated from MEDLINE abstracts using a unique combination of lexical and linguistic methods and ontological rules. We have analyzed this data set using conventional cheminformatics approaches and addressed several questions pertaining to cross-species concordance of liver effects, chemical determinants of liver effects in humans, and the prediction of whether a given compound is likely to cause a liver effect in humans. We found that the concordance of liver effects was relatively low (ca. 39-44%) between different species, raising the possibility that species specificity could depend on specific features of chemical structure. Compounds were clustered by their chemical similarity, and similar compounds were examined for the expected similarity of their species-dependent liver effect profiles. In most cases, similar profiles were observed for members of the same cluster, but some compounds appeared as outliers. The outliers were the subject of focused assertion regeneration from MEDLINE as well as other data sources. In some cases, additional biological assertions were identified, which were in line with expectations based on compounds' chemical similarities. The assertions were further converted to binary annotations of underlying chemicals (i.e., liver effect vs no liver effect), and binary quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models were generated to predict whether a compound would be expected to produce liver effects in humans. Despite the apparent heterogeneity of data, models have shown good predictive power assessed by external 5-fold cross-validation procedures. The external predictive power of binary QSAR models was further confirmed by their application to compounds that were retrieved or studied after the model was developed. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study for chemical toxicity prediction that applied QSAR modeling and other cheminformatics techniques to observational data generated by the means of automate Topics: Animals; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Cluster Analysis; Databases, Factual; Humans; MEDLINE; Mice; Models, Chemical; Molecular Conformation; Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship | 2010 |
Acute hepatotoxicity caused by enalapril: a case report.
A case of enalapril-induced acute hepatotoxicity with an unusual morphology is described. This morphology was characterized by macro- and microvesicular steatosis associated with neutrophil infiltration and Mallory bodies, occasionally with satellitosis. These alterations were most abundant in zone 1 of the periportal region, less common in zone 2 and rare in zone 3. There was also confluent periportal necrosis with sinusoidal fibrin deposits associated with intense ductal metaplasia and an infiltrate of inflammatory cells that included plasmocytes and a few eosinophils, as well as focal biliary damage. This morphology, that may be referred as "predominantly periportal steatohepatitis", was distinct from that associated with non-alcohol and alcohol-induced steatohepatitis, both initiated in acinar zone 3 and subsequently extended to other zones. Topics: Acute Disease; Adult; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Antihypertensive Agents; Biopsy; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Fatty Liver; Humans; Liver; Male; Necrosis; Neutrophil Infiltration | 2010 |
Ductopenic hepatitis related to Enalapril.
Topics: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Bile Canaliculi; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Cholestasis, Intrahepatic; Enalapril; Humans; Male; Middle Aged | 2003 |
Toxic hepatitis due to enalapril in childhood.
Topics: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Antihypertensive Agents; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Child; Enalapril; Female; Humans; Liver; Nephrotic Syndrome | 2003 |
[Enalapril induced cholestasic hepatitis].
Topics: Aged; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Antihypertensive Agents; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Cholestasis; Enalapril; Humans; Male | 2002 |
Fatal hepatotoxicity associated with enalapril.
Topics: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Fatal Outcome; Female; Humans | 2001 |
Acute liver failure due to enalapril.
This report presents a 46-year-old man who was treated for hypertension with the angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor enalapril. After 3 years of continuous treatment he presented with jaundice and progressive liver failure that continued despite withdrawal of the medication. The patient was taking no other medication. All known causes of acute liver failure could be excluded indicating a drug-induced liver damage after long-term treatment with enalapril. Analysis of liver biopsies revealed a pathomorphological pattern comparable to than observed in severe halothane hepatitis. Serological studies including T-cell stimulation with enalapril and a broad spectrum of tests for autoimmunity including autoantibodies against calreticulin, the major Ca2+ and Zn2+ binding protein of the endoplasmic reticulum and suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of halothane hepatitis were negative. Thus, the mechanism of enalapril-induced liver injury remains obscure. Liver failure progressed and finally led to orthotopic liver transplantation. To our knowledge, this is the longest duration of chronic treatment with an ACE inhibitor before liver failure occurred. In addition, liver failure progressed despite withdrawal of the medication. It is concluded that even after long-term treatment with an ACE inhibitor liver failure may be induced. Therefore, regular monitoring of liver enzymes should be considered. Topics: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Biopsy; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Disease Progression; Enalapril; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Hypertension; Liver; Liver Failure, Acute; Male; Middle Aged | 2000 |
[Hepatoxicity by enalapril].
Topics: Acute Disease; Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Antihypertensive Agents; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Humans; Male; Middle Aged | 1999 |
Enalapril-induced hepatotoxicity.
Topics: Aged; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Female; Humans; Lisinopril | 1993 |
Enalapril hepatotoxicity in the rat. Effects of modulators of cytochrome P450 and glutathione.
The effects of modulators of cytochrome P450 and reduced glutathione (GSH) on the hepatotoxicity of enalapril maleate (EN) were investigated in Fischer 344 rats. Twenty-four hours following the administration of EN (1.5 to 1.8 g/kg), increased serum transaminases (ALT and AST) and hepatic necrosis were observed. Pretreatment of the animals with pregnenolone-16 alpha-carbonitrile, a selective inducer of the cytochrome P450IIIA gene subfamily, enhanced EN-induced hepatotoxicity, whereas pretreatment with the cytochrome P450 inhibitor, cobalt protoporphyrin, reduced the liver injury. Depletion of hepatic non-protein sulfhydryls (NPSHs), an indicator of GSH, by combined treatment with buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) and diethyl maleate (DEM) produced marked elevations in serum transaminases by 6 hr after EN treatment. Administered on its own, EN decreased hepatic NPSH content and when combined with the BSO/DEM pretreatment, the liver was nearly completely devoid of NPSHs. Protection from EN-induced hepatotoxicity was observed in animals administered L-2-oxothiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid, a cysteine precursor. Together, these observations suggest the involvement of cytochrome P450 in EN bioactivation and GSH in detoxification. The results corroborate previous in vitro observations pertaining to the mechanism of EN-induced cytotoxicity towards primary cultures of rat hepatocytes. Although the doses of EN used in this study were far in excess of therapeutic doses, under certain circumstances, this metabolism-mediated toxicologic mechanism could form the basis for idiosyncratic liver injury in patients receiving EN therapy. Topics: Alanine Transaminase; Animals; Aspartate Aminotransferases; Biomarkers; Biotransformation; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Enalapril; Enzyme Induction; Glutathione; Inactivation, Metabolic; Liver; Liver Diseases; Male; Necrosis; Pregnenolone Carbonitrile; Protoporphyrins; Pyrrolidonecarboxylic Acid; Rats; Rats, Inbred F344; Sulfhydryl Compounds; Thiazoles; Thiazolidines | 1992 |
Suspected cross-reactivity of enalapril- and captopril-induced hepatotoxicity.
To present evidence that enalapril and captopril may produce hepatotoxicity by a common mechanism.. A case report and review of pertinent literature.. A patient developed hepatotoxicity once while taking enalapril and again while taking captopril. Hepatotoxicity resolved with cessation of therapy. Hepatotoxicity has been reported with use of captopril, enalapril, and lisinopril. Apparent cross-reactivity has been reported on just one other occasion.. Because hepatotoxicity is uncommon with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, our observations suggest the possibility that these agents produce hepatotoxicity by a common mechanism. In patients who develop hepatotoxicity while taking one ACE inhibitor, other agents in this class probably should be avoided. Topics: Alanine Transaminase; Alkaline Phosphatase; Aspartate Aminotransferases; Captopril; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Humans; Liver Diseases; Male; Middle Aged | 1992 |
Reduced nephrotoxicity and hepatoxicity in cyclosporin A therapy by enalapril and spironolactone in rats.
The aim of the study was to define a therapy to be combined with an immunosuppressive drug such as cyclosporin A, in order to partially reduce the nephrotoxic and hepatotoxic effects in the treated rats. Two drugs were considered: enalapril, which is an inhibitor of the angiotensin-converting enzyme, and spironolactone, which is an antagonist of aldosterone. These two drugs interrupt the renin-angiotensinogen-angiotensin chain after this has been activated by cyclosporin A, preventing peripheral vasoconstriction and more specifically the constriction of both glomerular arterioles and hepatic vessels from occurring, thus diminishing the cyclosporin A toxicity in both liver and kidney. Topics: Animals; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Cyclosporine; Drug Therapy, Combination; Enalapril; Kidney Diseases; Liver Diseases; Male; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Spironolactone | 1991 |
Fulminant hepatitis after lisinopril administration.
A case of fulminant hepatitis in a patient taking lisinopril for 5 weeks for arterial hypertension is reported. Jaundice, fever, myalgia, and marked increase in serum aminotransferase activities occurred after 2 weeks of treatment. Continuation of lisinopril administration for 3 weeks after the onset of jaundice was associated with the development of grade III encephalopathy and a marked decrease in prothrombin and proaccelerin levels. This case strongly suggests that lisinopril may induce acute hepatitis and that continuation of the treatment after the onset of jaundice can lead to life-threatening hepatic failure. Topics: Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Hepatic Encephalopathy; Humans; Hypertension; Lisinopril; Male; Middle Aged | 1990 |
Hepatic injury related to enalapril.
Topics: Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Female; Humans; Hypertension; Middle Aged | 1989 |
Cytolytic hepatitis with captopril but not with enalapril.
Topics: Captopril; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Humans; Male; Middle Aged | 1988 |
[Acute hepatitis after taking enalapril maleate (Renitec)].
Topics: Acute Disease; Aged; Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury; Enalapril; Humans; Male | 1987 |