Question 1: How safe are ACE inhibitors for heart failure in children?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Erasmus MC - Sophia, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
² Cardiothoracic Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.
³ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Göttsegen Gyorgy Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest, Hungary.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital University Medical Center, Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁷ Univerzitetska Dečja Klinika, Belgrade, Serbia.
⁸ Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University Children's Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia.
⁹ Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversitat, Salzburg, Austria.
¹⁰ Pharmaplex bvba, Wezembeek_Oppem, Belgium.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
¹² Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Marijke van der Meulen et al. Arch Dis Child. 2018 Jan.

. 2018 Jan;103(1):106-109.

doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2017-312774. Epub 2017 Oct 26.

¹ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Erasmus MC - Sophia, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
² Cardiothoracic Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.
³ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Göttsegen Gyorgy Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest, Hungary.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany.
⁵ Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital University Medical Center, Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁷ Univerzitetska Dečja Klinika, Belgrade, Serbia.
⁸ Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University Children's Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia.
⁹ Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversitat, Salzburg, Austria.
¹⁰ Pharmaplex bvba, Wezembeek_Oppem, Belgium.
¹¹ Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
¹² Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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Keywords: ace-inhibitor; adverse events; adverse reactions; heart failure; paediatric.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.