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Altered pharmacokinetics and excessive hypotensive effect of candesartan in a patient with the CYP2C91/3 genotype.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 Nov 2003
Uchida Shinya, Watanabe Hiroshi, Nishio Shinichiro, Hashimoto Hisakuni, Yamazaki Keisuke, Hayashi Hideharu, Ohashi Kyoichi
Abstract excerpt
An 89-year-old man with severe hypertension (190/82 mm Hg) and chronic heart failure (New York Heart Association class II) despite treatment with benidipine, doxazosin mesylate (INN, doxazosin), and furosemide was given oral candesartan cilexetil (4 mg/d), an angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker metabolized via cytochrome p450 (CYP) 2C9. Two days later, he started to have severe dizziness and returned to the...
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