Affiliation:
1. Transplantation Unit Necker Hospital Paris France
2. Department of Pharmacotherapy University Medical Centre Vim Germany
Abstract
SUMMARYExperimental and clinical research has supported the use of angiotensin‐converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) in diabetic, hypertensive and proteinuric nephropathies. This review will evaluate the role of angiotensin II in the progression of renal damage in kidney diseases; the diagnostic value of microalbuminuria as an early clinical sign of renal damage and the possibility of preventing its further progression; the clinical results obtained with ACE inhibitors and/or ARBs in diabetic and non‐diabetic nephropathies; and the therapeutic possibilities of ACE inhibitors and ARBs in renal transplantation. Based on available clinical data, ACE inhibitors can be considered to be the gold standard in reducing and/or preventing albuminuria, and thereby decreasing the percentage of patients who will progress to end‐stage renal disease and death. Renal transplantation and chronic allograft nephropathy appear to be a promising field for the use of ACE inhibitors and ARBs.
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