[Efficacy of long-term enalapril use in combined therapy of chronic pulmonary heart]. / Otsenka éffektivnosti dlitel'nogo primeneniia énalaprila v kompleksnoi terapii khronicheskogo legochnogo serdtsa.

ABSTRACT

86 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) and tuberculosis in combination with COPD complicated by chronic pulmonary heart (CPH) received a 18-month continuous treatment with enalapril (enap, D. Reddis Laboratories). It was found that the addition of enap, an inhibitor of ACE, to combined therapy of CPH patients is pathogenetic as it results in lowering of blood pressure in pulmonary artery, remodeling of hypertrophic right ventricle of the heart and decline of left ventricular dysfunction, in improvement of functional state of the lungs, in arrest of progression of cardiac failure. Long-term administration of the drug induced no serious side effects and is well tolerated.