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Fetotoxic risk of AT1 blockers exceeds that of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors: an observational study. J Hypertens 2020; 38:133-141. [PMID: 31568057 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000002233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE The fetotoxic potential of prenatal exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) has been known for many years. Symptoms range from transient oligohydramnios to neonatal anuria and permanent renal damage, joint contractures, hypocalvaria, lung hypoplasia and intrauterine or neonatal death. This study aims to investigate the critical gestational time for renin-angiotensin system inhibitor (RAS-I)-induced fetopathy, to quantify the fetopathy risk and to evaluate factors associated with the occurrence and severity of fetopathy. METHODS Prospectively and retrospectively ascertained RAS-I exposed pregnancies from the databases of six teratology information services were analyzed. RESULTS Eighty-nine pregnancies with ACE-I and 101 with ARB exposure beyond the first trimester were identified. Fifty-nine of these 190 pregnancies were classified as having evidence of RAS-I fetopathy. All pregnancies affected with fetopathy were exposed after 20 0/7 gestational weeks. Limited to prospectively enrolled cases with exposure at least 20 0/7 gestational weeks, the rate of fetopathy was 3.2% for ACE-I and 29.2% for ARB. The chance of recovery of amniotic fluid volume was higher with RAS-I discontinuation before 30 gestational weeks and with a longer exposure-free interval before delivery. CONCLUSION Exposure to ARBs is associated with a higher fetopathy risk than exposure to ACE-Is. RAS-I should ideally be discontinued prior to pregnancy or immediately after recognition of pregnancy. Because symptoms may improve in cases of RAS-I-induced oligohydramnios, pregnancy should be maintained as long as there is fetal well being. Physicians and patients need to be alerted to the fetotoxic risks of RAS-I.
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Renin-angiotensin system blockers exposure in utero: a life-long risk for the offspring health. J Hypertens 2019; 38:35-37. [PMID: 31790019 DOI: 10.1097/hjh.0000000000002259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ku LC, Zimmerman K, Benjamin DK, Clark RH, Hornik CP, Smith PB. Safety of Enalapril in Infants Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Pediatr Cardiol 2017; 38:155-161. [PMID: 27826711 PMCID: PMC5288129 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-016-1496-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Enalapril is used to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure in infants. However, enalapril is not labeled for neonates, and safety data in infants are sparse. To evaluate the safety of enalapril in young infants, we conducted a retrospective cohort study of infants who were exposed to enalapril in the first 120 days of life and were cared for in 348 neonatal intensive care units from 1997 to 2012. We determined the proportion of exposed infants who developed adverse events, including death, hypotension requiring pressors, hyperkalemia, and elevated serum creatinine. Using multivariable logistic regression, we examined risk factors for adverse events, including postnatal age at first exposure, exposure duration, gestational age group, small for gestational age status, race, sex, 5-min Apgar score, and inborn status. Of a cohort of 887,910 infants, 662 infants (0.07%) were exposed to enalapril. Among exposed infants, 142 infants (21%) suffered an adverse event. The most common adverse event was hyperkalemia (13%), followed by elevated serum creatinine (5%), hypotension (4%), and death (0.5%). Significant risk factors for adverse events included postnatal age <30 days at first exposure and longer exposure duration. This study is the largest to date examining the safety of enalapril in young term and preterm infants without significant structural cardiac disease.
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- Lawrence C Ku
- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 17969, Durham, NC, 27715, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 17969, Durham, NC, 27715, USA
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- Pediatrix-Obstetrix Center for Research and Education, Sunrise, FL, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 17969, Durham, NC, 27715, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 17969, Durham, NC, 27715, USA.
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Roysommuti S, Kritsongsakchai A, Wyss JM. The Effect of Perinatal Taurine on Adult Renal Function Does Not Appear to Be Mediated by Taurine's Inhibition of the Renin-Angiotensin System. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2015; 803:665-77. [PMID: 25833535 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15126-7_53] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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This study tests the hypothesis that perinatal taurine supplementation alters adult renal function by inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were fed normal rat chow and given water alone (Control) or water containing an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (captopril, 400 mg/ml) from conception until delivery (FD) or from delivery until weaning (LD). After weaning, the rats received normal rat chow and tap water. At 7–8 weeks of age, renal function at rest and after acute saline load was studied in conscious, restrained male rats. Body weight, mean arterial pressure, heart rate, effective renal blood flow, and renal vascular resistance were not significantly different among the three groups. Compared to Control, glomerular filtration rate, but not filtration fraction, significantly increased after saline load in both FD and LD groups. Water excretion significantly increased only in FD compared to Control, while fractional water excretion was significantly increased after saline load in both FD and LD groups. Sodium excretion significantly increased after saline load only in FD, while both captopril-treated groups significantly decreased fractional sodium excretion. Potassium excretion significantly increased in both FD and LD groups, while fractional potassium excretion significantly increased at rest in FD and decreased in LD groups after saline load. These effects of perinatal RAS inhibition on adult renal function contrast sharply, and are opposite in many cases to, the effects of perinatal taurine supplementation. Thus, these data suggest that perinatal taurine supplementation does not alter adult renal function through its ability to inhibit the perinatal RAS.
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- Sanya Roysommuti
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, 40002, Thailand,
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Prenatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide results in local RAS activation in the adipose tissue of rat offspring. PLoS One 2014; 9:e111376. [PMID: 25360670 PMCID: PMC4216013 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2014] [Accepted: 09/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Adult metabolic syndrome may originate in part during fetal or early life. This study was designed to investigate the effects of prenatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on adipose development and local renin-angiotensin system (RAS) activation in rat offspring. METHODS Pregnant rats were randomly divided into three groups (n = 8 in each), including an NS group (pregnant rats were only treated with 0.5 ml normal saline from the 8th to the 14th day of gestation); an LPS group (pregnant rats were injected intraperitoneally with 0.79 mg/kg LPS on the 8th, 10th and 12th days of pregnancy); and an LPS+pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) group (identical to the LPS group except that 100 mg/kg PDTC was administered from the 8th to the 14th day of gestation). RESULTS Prenatal exposure to LPS resulted in increased blood pressure, adipose coefficient and body weight in rat offspring. Specifically, during the infancy of the offspring rats, the LPS stimulus promoted the differentiation of adipose cells, diminishing their diameters and proportions while simultaneously increasing cell number. In contrast, once the rats were grown, adipose cell differentiation was inhibited, and the diameters and proportions of the cells were increased. Moreover, each component of the RAS was changed and was shown to be activated. PDTC, an inhibitor of NF-κB, could reverse the influence of the stimulus during pregnancy. CONCLUSION Prenatal exposure to LPS in rats results in increased blood pressure, adipose coefficient, body weight and activation of adipose RAS in offspring.
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Fetal renin-angiotensin-system blockade syndrome: renal lesions. Pediatr Nephrol 2014; 29:1221-30. [PMID: 24477978 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-013-2749-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2013] [Revised: 12/16/2013] [Accepted: 12/23/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Fetuses exposed to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor antagonists during the second and/or third trimesters of gestation are at high risk of developing severe complications. They consist in fetal hypotension, and anuria/oligohydramnios leading to Potter sequence, frequently associated with hypocalvaria. Most fetuses die during the pre- or postnatal period, whereas others recover normal or subnormal renal function. However, the secondary occurrence of renal failure or hypertension has been reported in children after apparent complete recovery. METHODS In this context, we analyzed renal lesions in 14 fetus/neonates who died soon after exposure to renin-angiotensin-system (RAS) blockers. Our objective was to determine the causes for the persistence or the secondary occurrence of renal complications reported in some of the survivors. RESULTS As previously described, renal tubular dysgenesis is usually observed. Additional lesions, such as thickening of the muscular wall of arterioles and interlobular arteries, glomerular cysts, and interstitial fibrosis, develop early during fetal life. CONCLUSION We suggest that renal lesions that develop before birth may persist after withdrawal of the causative drugs and normalization of blood and renal perfusion pressure. Their persistence could explain the severe long-term outcome of some of these patients. Long-term study of children exposed to RAS blockers during fetal life is strongly recommended.
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Renal tubular dysgenesis (RTD) is a severe foetal disorder characterised by the absence or poor development of proximal tubules, early onset and persistent anuria (leading to oligohydramnios and the Potter sequence) and ossification defects of the skull. In most cases, early death occurs from pulmonary hypoplasia, anuria and refractory arterial hypotension. RTD may be acquired during foetal development or inherited as an autosomal recessive disease. Inherited RTD is genetically heterogeneous and linked to mutations in the genes encoding the major components of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS): angiotensinogen, renin, angiotensin-converting enzyme or angiotensin II receptor type 1. Mutations result in either the absence of production or lack of efficacy of angiotensin II. Secondary RTD has been observed in various situations, particularly in the donor twin of severe twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, in foetuses affected with congenital haemochromatosis or in foetuses exposed to RAS blockers. All cases result in renal hypoperfusion. These examples illustrate the importance of a functional RAS in the maintenance of blood pressure and renal blood flow for humans during foetal life. The diagnosis of RTD in an anuric foetus with normal renal sonography results is important for the management of the foetus or neonate. Depending on the genetic or secondary cause of the disease, such findings can lead to genetic counselling or the prevention of recurrence in subsequent pregnancies.
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Capelari DN, Sánchez SI, Ortega HH, Ciuffo GM, Fuentes LB. Effects of maternal captopril treatment during late pregnancy on neonatal lung development in rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 177:97-106. [DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2012.05.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2011] [Revised: 03/10/2012] [Accepted: 05/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bullo M, Tschumi S, Bucher BS, Bianchetti MG, Simonetti GD. Pregnancy Outcome Following Exposure to Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists. Hypertension 2012; 60:444-50. [DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.112.196352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Marina Bullo
- From the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital (Inselspital), Berne, Switzerland (M.B., S.T., B.S.B., G.D.S.); Division of Pediatrics, Hospitals Bellinzona and Mendrisio, Bellinzona, Switzerland (M.G.B.)
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- From the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital (Inselspital), Berne, Switzerland (M.B., S.T., B.S.B., G.D.S.); Division of Pediatrics, Hospitals Bellinzona and Mendrisio, Bellinzona, Switzerland (M.G.B.)
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- From the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital (Inselspital), Berne, Switzerland (M.B., S.T., B.S.B., G.D.S.); Division of Pediatrics, Hospitals Bellinzona and Mendrisio, Bellinzona, Switzerland (M.G.B.)
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- From the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital (Inselspital), Berne, Switzerland (M.B., S.T., B.S.B., G.D.S.); Division of Pediatrics, Hospitals Bellinzona and Mendrisio, Bellinzona, Switzerland (M.G.B.)
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- From the Department of Pediatrics and Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University Hospital (Inselspital), Berne, Switzerland (M.B., S.T., B.S.B., G.D.S.); Division of Pediatrics, Hospitals Bellinzona and Mendrisio, Bellinzona, Switzerland (M.G.B.)
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Polifka JE. Is there an embryopathy associated with first-trimester exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor antagonists? A critical review of the evidence. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 94:576-98. [PMID: 22807387 DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Revised: 03/23/2012] [Accepted: 04/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Drugs that interfere with the renin-angiotensin system, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), are widely used to manage hypertension and heart failure. Adequate functioning of the RAS is essential for normal fetal kidney development. The potential for ACEIs and ARBs to impair fetal and neonatal renal function if taken after the first trimester of pregnancy has been well documented. Although these drugs were not found to be teratogenic in animals, until recently little was known about the teratogenic effects of ACEIs and ARBs in humans when exposure was limited to the first trimester of pregnancy. New evidence from epidemiologic studies indicates that there may be an elevated teratogenic risk when these drugs are taken during the first trimester of pregnancy. However, this elevated risk does not appear to be specific to ACEIs and ARBs, but is instead related to maternal factors and diseases that typically coexist with hypertension in pregnancy, such as diabetes, advanced maternal age, and obesity. Women who become pregnant while being treated with an ACEI or ARB should be advised to avoid exposure to these drugs during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy by switching to a different class of antihypertensive drugs between weeks 8 and 10 after conception.
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- Janine E Polifka
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Kaczmarczyk M, Łoniewska B, Kuprjanowicz A, Józwa A, Bińczak-Kuleta A, Gorący I, Dawid G, Kordek A, Karpińska-Kaczmarczyk K, Brodkiewicz A, Ciechanowicz A. An insertion/deletion ACE polymorphism and kidney size in Polish full-term newborns. J Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone Syst 2012; 14:369-74. [PMID: 22674971 DOI: 10.1177/1470320312448948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The number of nephrons is a multifactorial trait controlled by the interaction of environmental factors and genetic variants that influence the extent of branching nephrogenesis during foetal life. A correlation between renal mass and nephron number in newborns allows the use of the total kidney volume at birth as a surrogate for congenital nephron number. Since the renin-angiotensin system plays an important role in renal development we hypothesized that the common, functional insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism in the ACE gene might be responsible for the variation in kidney size amongst healthy individuals. We recruited 210 healthy Polish full-term newborns born to healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies. The kidney volume was measured sonographically. Total kidney volume (TKV) was calculated as the sum of left kidney volume and right kidney volume. TKV was normalized to body surface area (TKV/BSA). The I and D alleles were identified using polymerase chain reaction. TKV/BSA in newborns carrying at least one insertion ACE allele was significantly reduced by approximately 8% as compared with homozygous newborns for the D allele (DD genotype) (105.1±23.6 vs. 114.2±28.2 cm(3)/m(2), p<0.05). The results of this study suggest that I/D ACE polymorphism may account for subtle variation in kidney size at birth, which reflects congenital nephron endowment.
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- Mariusz Kaczmarczyk
- 1Department of Clinical and Molecular Biochemistry, Pomeranian Medical University, Poland
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Hao XQ, Kong T, Zhang SY, Zhao ZS. Alteration of embryonic AT(2)-R and inflammatory cytokines gene expression induced by prenatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide affects renal development. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 65:433-9. [PMID: 22342485 DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2012.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2010] [Revised: 10/25/2011] [Accepted: 01/11/2012] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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UNLABELLED Prenatal exposure to LPS(lipopolysaccharide) results in renal damage in offspring rats, but the mechanism is unknown. The present study was to explore the role of angiotensin II and inflammation in the development of renal damage induced by prenatal exposure to LPS. The pregnant rats were randomly divided into two groups, i.e., control group, LPS group. The rats in the two groups were administered intraperitoneally with vehicle or 0.79 mg/kg LPS on 8th, 10th and 12th day during gestation. The mRNA expression of angiotensinogen, renin, AT(1)-R, AT(2)-R, TNF-α and IL-6 in embryos were assessed. Renal Ang II-positive cells, monocytes/macrophages, lymphocytes, collagen I and TUNEL-positive cells were identified by immunohistochemical staining in newborn and 7-week-old offspring rats. The number of glomeruli and creatinine clearance rate were determined in offspring at 7 weeks of age. The results showed that prenatal LPS decreased AT(2)-R mRNA expression but increased TNF-α and IL-6 mRNA expression in embryos. Prenatal LPS decreased renal angiotensin II-positive cells in newborn offspring rats, while these increased in 7-week-old offspring rats. Prenatal LPS decreased glomerular number and creatinine clearance rate but increased renal infiltrating monocytes/macrophages and lymphocytes at 7 weeks of age. Prenatal LPS also increased TUNEL-positive cells and collagen I expressions in newborn rats and 7-week-old offspring rats. CONCLUSION Alteration of embryonic AT(2)-R and inflammatory cytokines gene expression induced by prenatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide affects renal development.
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- Xue-Qin Hao
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471003, China.
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Spezielle Arzneimitteltherapie in der Schwangerschaft. ARZNEIMITTEL IN SCHWANGERSCHAFT UND STILLZEIT 2012. [PMCID: PMC7271212 DOI: 10.1016/b978-3-437-21203-1.10002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Prenatal exposure to lipopolysaccharide alters the intrarenal renin–angiotensin system and renal damage in offspring rats. Hypertens Res 2009; 33:76-82. [DOI: 10.1038/hr.2009.185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Miura K, Sekine T, Iida A, Takahashi K, Igarashi T. Salt-losing nephrogenic diabetes insipidus caused by fetal exposure to angiotensin receptor blocker. Pediatr Nephrol 2009; 24:1235-8. [PMID: 19153776 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-008-1091-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2008] [Revised: 11/21/2008] [Accepted: 11/27/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The administration of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) or angiotensin type 1 receptor blockers (ARBs) to pregnant women has been reported to cause ACEI/ARB fetopathy, including oligohydramios, pulmonary hypoplasia, renal insufficiency, limb contracture, and fetal hypotension in the child. Most of the patients die or develop end-stage renal failure during the neonatal period. The long-term prognosis of renal dysfunctions of patients with ARB fetopathy has not been reported. We report two pediatric cases, a 6- and 2-year-old boy, respectively, with ARB fetopathy whose renal functions were thoroughly evaluated after recovery from neonatal renal failure. Both patients showed (1) mildly decreased glomerular filtration rate, (2) no significant proximal tubular dysfunctions, and (3) salt-losing nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, while the excretion of arginine vasopressin and urine level of cyclic AMP were increased. The data on these two patients indicate that the administration of ARB to the fetus profoundly impairs the urine concentrating ability, probably due to papillary atrophy and the disturbed formation of the osmotic gradient in the medulla, which have been confirmed in neonatal rats administered with ACEIs or ARBs. ACEIs/ARBs must not be administered to pregnant women.
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- Kenichiro Miura
- Department of Pediatrics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Kobori H, Nangaku M, Navar LG, Nishiyama A. The intrarenal renin-angiotensin system: from physiology to the pathobiology of hypertension and kidney disease. Pharmacol Rev 2007; 59:251-87. [PMID: 17878513 DOI: 10.1124/pr.59.3.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 867] [Impact Index Per Article: 51.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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In recent years, the focus of interest on the role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the pathophysiology of hypertension and organ injury has changed to a major emphasis on the role of the local RAS in specific tissues. In the kidney, all of the RAS components are present and intrarenal angiotensin II (Ang II) is formed by independent multiple mechanisms. Proximal tubular angiotensinogen, collecting duct renin, and tubular angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptors are positively augmented by intrarenal Ang II. In addition to the classic RAS pathways, prorenin receptors and chymase are also involved in local Ang II formation in the kidney. Moreover, circulating Ang II is actively internalized into proximal tubular cells by AT1 receptor-dependent mechanisms. Consequently, Ang II is compartmentalized in the renal interstitial fluid and the proximal tubular compartments with much higher concentrations than those existing in the circulation. Recent evidence has also revealed that inappropriate activation of the intrarenal RAS is an important contributor to the pathogenesis of hypertension and renal injury. Thus, it is necessary to understand the mechanisms responsible for independent regulation of the intrarenal RAS. In this review, we will briefly summarize our current understanding of independent regulation of the intrarenal RAS and discuss how inappropriate activation of this system contributes to the development and maintenance of hypertension and renal injury. We will also discuss the impact of antihypertensive agents in preventing the progressive increases in the intrarenal RAS during the development of hypertension and renal injury.
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- Hiroyuki Kobori
- Department of Medicine, Director of the Molecular Core in Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA.
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Laube GF, Kemper MJ, Schubiger G, Neuhaus TJ. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor fetopathy: long-term outcome. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2007; 92:F402-3. [PMID: 17284475 PMCID: PMC2675369 DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.101717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Fetal exposure to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) is associated with increased neonatal morbidity and mortality. Long-term follow-up of three patients with fetal ACEI exposure revealed impaired renal function in two, severe hypertension and proteinuria in one and isolated polycythaemia in all three. Careful long-term follow-up of children with ACEI fetopathy is recommended.
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- Guido F Laube
- University Children's Hospital, Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland.
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Lasaitiene D, Chen Y, Adams MA, Friberg P. Further insights into the role of angiotensin II in kidney development. Clin Physiol Funct Imaging 2006; 26:197-204. [PMID: 16836691 DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097x.2006.00676.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Over the past decade, compelling studies have highlighted the fundamental role of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in renal development and long-term control of renal function and arterial pressure. The present review provides an update of the understanding of how the RAS controls nephrogenesis and nephrovascular development. In addition, the investigations linking the perinatal development of RAS inhibition-induced renal dysmorphology and establishment of adult blood pressure are discussed.
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- Daina Lasaitiene
- Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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