Four sites are now actively seeking participants to enroll into the PTN study of lisinopril for the control of high blood pressure in kids with kidney transplants: University of Alabama–Birmingham, Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and New York University Langone Medical Center.

Lisinopril is a drug used in children ages 6 and up to treat high blood pressure, a condition commonly seen among children and adolescents who receive kidney transplants. Unfortunately, the appropriate dose of lisinopril in these especially vulnerable patients is not currently known.

This PTN study will evaluate the safety of lisinopril in pediatric participants who have a stable functioning kidney transplant and high blood pressure. It will also examine what young bodies do to the drug (a.k.a. the drug’s pharmacokinetics).

An eventual total of eight sites will recruit participants into this study. Future sites include Albert Einstein University Hospital in New York, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, and Emory University & Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.