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I'm your host, pharmacist Eric Christensen.

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All right, the drug of the day today

is enalapril. Brand name of this medication is vasotech. And as many of you may be studying

pharmacology could recognize, it has the P-R-I-L, the prill ending. So this is indeed an ACE inhibitor.

Ace inhibitors commonly used for hypertension, heart failure, post-MI,

proteinuric chronic kidney disease. Those are really the indications that you're going to see

in practice,

hypertension being most common, and then heart failure post-MI, definitely, you see a significant

amount as well. Now, I will say I see lysinepril used much more commonly. Clinicians typically

have more experience with that one.

There is a little bit of difference in kinetics, too, with anallopril.

But occasionally I do see analapril used.

Dosing with this medication, usually we're in the range of 5 to 40 milligrams per day.

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