centrally-acting ACE inhibitor

Indications

• may slow cognitive decline in patients with dementia
  • effect is small & of unknown clinical significance
• hypertension
• diabetic nephropathy
• nondiabetic proteinuric nephropathy
• chronic heart failure
  • left ventricular systolic dysfunction
• myocardial infarction
• left ventricular diastolic dysfunction
• scleroderma, scleroderma renal crisis
• migraine prophylaxis
• ischemic stroke
• cystinuria, cysteine renal calculi

More general terms

• angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor

More specific terms

• captopril (Capoten)
• fosinopril (Monopril)
• lisinopril (Prinivil, Zestril)
• perindopril (Aceon, Coversyl)
• ramipril (Altace)
• trandolapril (Mavik, indolapril)