Ramipril 2.5 mg Capsules
Ramipril Capsules contains a medicine called ramipril. This belongs to a group of medicines called angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.
Ramipril Capsules work by:
- Decreasing your body’s production of substances that could raise your blood pressure
- Making your blood vessels relax and widen
- Making it easier for your heart to pump blood around your body.
Ramipril capsules can be used:
- To treat high blood pressure (hypertension)
- To reduce the risk of you having a heart attack or stroke
- To reduce the risk or delay the worsening of kidney problems (whether or not you have diabetes)
- To treat your heart when it cannot pump enough blood to the rest of your body (heart failure)
- As treatment following heart attach (myocardial infraction) complicated with heart failure.
Please contact Crescent Pharma should you require any more information.
Description
Description
Therapeutic indications for Ramipril 2.5 mg Capsules
– Treatment of hypertension.
– Cardiovascular prevention: reduction of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with:
- manifest atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease (history of coronary heart disease or stroke, or peripheral vascular disease)
or
- diabetes with at least one cardiovascular risk factor (see section 5.1).
– Treatment of renal disease:
- Incipient glomerular diabetic nephropathy as defined by the presence of microalbuminuria,
- Manifest glomerular diabetic nephropathy as defined by macroproteinuria in patients with at least one cardiovascular risk factor (see section 5.1),
- Manifest glomerular non diabetic nephropathy as defined by macroproteinuria ≥ 3 g/day (see section 5.1).
– Treatment of symptomatic heart failure.
– Secondary prevention after acute myocardial infarction: reduction of mortality from the acute phase of myocardial infarction in patients with clinical signs of heart failure when started > 48 hours following acute myocardial infarction.
Please contact Crescent Pharma should you require any more information.
