Chlortalidone

Chlortalidone
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Trade names Hygroton, Thalitone (Ciba-Geigy)
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Protein binding 75%
Elimination half-life 40 hours
Excretion Renal
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Formula C14H11ClN2O4S
Molar mass 338.766 g/mol
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Chirality Racemic mixture
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Chlortalidone (INN/BAN) or chlorthalidone (USAN) is a diuretic medication used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure), enlargement of the main pumping chamber of the heart, edema ( fluid retention), and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (inability of an injured kidney to produce concentrated urine) and to prevent calcium oxalate kidney stones and bone fracture due to osteopenia. It is a thiazide-like diuretic of the sulfonamide class.

Chlortalidone is more effective at lowering blood pressure than the similar medication, hydrochlorothiazide, particularly toward the end of the dosing interval. Chlortalidone and hydrochlorothiazide have a similar risk of causing low blood potassium levels and other adverse effects at the usual doses prescribed in routine clinical practice. Chlortalidone is sometimes used as the sole medication for treating high blood pressure.

It is also often used in combination with an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor or angiotensin II receptor blocker or other antihypertensive drugs for lowering blood pressure, and also as an adjuvant medication for treating edema caused by heart failure and kidney disorders, such as nephrotic syndrome. Chlortalidone has a long duration of action, 24 to 72 hours, and can be given once a day.

Chemistry

Chlortalidone is in the sulfamoylbenzamide class. As it lacks the benzothiadiazine structure of the thiazide-type diuretics, it is called a thiazide-like diuretic.[1] Chlortalidone is freely soluble in dimethylacetamide (DMA), dimethylformamide (DMF), dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO), and methanol; it is also soluble in warm ethanol.[2]

Mechanisms of action

Diuretic effect

Chlortalidone, reduces reabsorption of sodium and chloride primarily through inhibition of the Na+/Cl− symporter in the apical membrane of distal convoluted tubule cells in the kidney.[3] Some of chlortalidone's diuretic effect is also due to inhibition of carbonic anhydrase in the proximal tubule.[4] Chronic exposure to chlortalidone decreases the glomerular filtration rate. Chlortalidone's diuretic effect is diminished in persons with kidney impairment. By increasing the delivery of sodium to the distal renal tubule, chlortalidone indirectly increases potassium excretion via the sodium-potassium exchange mechanism (i.e. apical ROMK/Na channels coupled with basolateral Na+/K ATPases). This can result in a low blood concentration of potassium and chloride as well as a mild metabolic alkalosis; however, the diuretic effect of chlortalidone is not affected by the acid-base balance of the person being treated.

Blood pressure-lowering

There is uncertainty about the mechanism of the blood pressure-lowering effect that occurs during chronic exposure to chlortalidone.[5] Initially, diuretics lower blood pressure by decreasing cardiac output and reducing plasma and extracellular fluid volume. Eventually, cardiac output returns to normal, and plasma and extracellular fluid volume return to slightly less than normal, but a reduction in peripheral vascular resistance is maintained, thus resulting in an overall lower blood pressure. The reduction in intravascular volume induces an elevation in plasma renin activity and aldosterone secretion, further contributing to the potassium loss associated with thiazide diuretic therapy.

Chlortalidone has a modestly greater effect on blood pressure than hydrochlorothiazide[6] but the two medications have similar effects on lowering potassium.[7] The thiazide-like diuretics (chlortalidone and indapamide) are more effective than the thiazide-type diuretics (including hydrochlorothiazide) for reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke, and heart failure in persons with high blood pressure and the thiazide-like and thiazide-type diuretics have similar rates of adverse effects.[8]

Regression of Cardiac Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Chlortalidone is superior to Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors or Angiotensin II receptor blockers for inducing regression of enlargement of the left ventricle, which is the main pumping chamber of the heart.[9]

Kidney stone prevention

Chlorthalidone reduces the amount of calcium excreted in urine, reducing the risk of calcium oxalate kidney stones.[10] In patients who have had multiple episodes of calcium oxalate kidney stones, chlortalidone lowers the risk of having another episode of kidney stones.[11] Chlortalidone is more effective than hydrochlorothiazide for lowering urine calcium levels and is therefore probably more effective.[12]

Bone fracture prevention

Chlorthalidone decreases mineral bone loss by promoting calcium retention by the kidney, and by directly stimulating osteoblast differentiation and bone mineral formation.[13] A Cochrane collaborative systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies concluded that thiazide exposure was associated with a reduced risk of hip fracture.[14] A secondary analysis of data from the ALLHAT study found that chlorthalidone reduced risk of hip and pelvis fracture.[15]

Reversal of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

Chlorthalidone (or other thiazide medication) is a key component of treatment of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus occurs when the kidney is unable to produce concentrated urine because it has an inadequate response to vasopressin-dependent removal of free water from the renal tubular filtrate. By blocking sodium ion resorption in the distal convoluted tubule, chlortalidone induces an increase in excretion of sodium ion in urine (natriuresis). Giving chlorthalidone while simultaneously restricting dietary sodium intake causes mild hypovolemia (low intravascular volume), which induces isotonic reabsorption of solute from the proximal renal tubule, reducing solute delivery in the renal collecting tubule and renal medullary collecting duct. This reduced delivery of solute to the collecting tubule and medullary collecting duct allows increased water resorption and higher concentration of urine, which leads to reversal of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus by a means that is independent of vasopressin. [16]

Efficacy

A clinical trial (ALLHAT) in 2002 compared chlortalidone to doxazosin, lisinopril, and amlodipine in the treatment of high-risk hypertensive patients. In this study, the rate of fatal or nonfatal heart attack was the same for chlortalidone, lisinopril, and amlodipine. ALLHAT subjects treated with chlorthalidone had a lower rate of congestive heart failure than amlodipine or lisinopril or doxazosin. Also, compared to lisinopril subjects, chlortalidone subjects in ALLHAT had a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease.[17]

Chlortalidone is a low ceiling diuretic (saluretic), which means that the total excretion of the filtered sodium ion load is less than 10% compared to about 30% for the high ceiling loop diuretics.[18] Unlike loop diuretics, chlortalidone's diuretic effect is markedly diminished in patients with certain kidney diseases (e.g. chronic kidney disease).

Adverse effects

Side effects are similar to those of thiazides:

The frequency and severity of these adverse effects is much reduced when chlortalidone is used at lower doses (e.g., 12.5 mg per day).

Banned for some sports

Chlortalidone is banned for some sports (including cricket) because it is a diuretic.[21]

See also

References

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