CYCLOSPORINE-ASSOCIATED HYPERTENSION IN CARDIOPULMONARY TRANSPLANTATION

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Abstract
In a retrospective review of fifty heart, lung, and heart-lung recipients receiving cyclosporine, forty-six (92%) were hypertensive. This hypertension was managed with either prazosin (n=29) or nifedipine (n=17). Renal function was assessed by creatinine clearance estimation and found to be significantly better in those patients receiving nifedipine. (creatinine clearance=60 ml/min [SEM 5.7] vs. 49 ml/min [SEM 2.7]: P < 0.05) This observation suggests that nifedipine should be the drug of choice for the treatment of cyclocporine-associated hypertension in cardic and pulmonary transplant recipients.