Chlortalidone

Chlortalidone
Chlortalidone
Systematic (IUPAC) name
(RS)-2-chloro-5-(1-hydroxy-3-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-yl)benzene-1-sulfonamide
Clinical data
Trade names Hygroton, Tenoretic
AHFS/Drugs.com Consumer Drug Information
MedlinePlus a682342
Pregnancy cat. C (Au), B (U.S.)
Legal status POM (UK)
Routes Oral
Pharmacokinetic data
Protein binding 75%
Half-life 40 hours
Excretion Renal
Identifiers
CAS number 77-36-1
ATC code C03BA04
PubChem CID 2732
DrugBank APRD00127
ChemSpider 2631 YesY
UNII Q0MQD1073Q YesY
KEGG D00272 YesY
ChEBI CHEBI:3654 YesY
ChEMBL CHEMBL1055 YesY
Chemical data
Formula C14H11ClN2O4S 
Mol. mass 338.766 g/mol
SMILES eMolecules & PubChem
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Chlortalidone (INN/BAN) or chlorthalidone (USAN) is a diuretic drug used to treat hypertension, originally marketed as Hygroton in the USA. It is described as a thiazide diuretic (or, rather, a thiazide-like diuretic because it acts similarly to the thiazides but does not contain the benzothiadiazine molecular structure). Compared with other medications of the thiazide class, chlorthalidone has the longest duration of action, but a similar diuretic effect at maximal therapeutic doses. It is often used in the management of hypertension and edema.

Unlike loop diuretics, chlorthalidone efficacy is diminished in patients with certain renal diseaes (e.g. Chronic Renal Disease). A clinical trial (ALLHAT) in 2002 compared chlorthalidone to doxazosin in the treatment of high-risk hypertensive patients. In this study, only chlorthalidone significantly reduced the risk of combined cardiovascular disease events, especially heart failure, when compared with drugs such as doxazosin.[1] Chlorthalidone was approved by the FDA in 1960. The ALLHAT study conclusions showed that there was no significant difference in all-cause mortality, fatal heart disease, or non-fatal myocardial infarction when chlorthalidone was compared with lisinopril or amlodipine but did show decrease rates of heart failure after 6 years when compared with amlodipine and decreased rates of cerebrovascular disease after 6 years when compared with lisinopril leading the study conclusions to say that thiazide-type diuretics are preferred first-step in antihypertensive therapy.

Mechanism of action

Chlorthalidone increases the excretion of sodium, chloride, and water into the renal lumen by inhibiting sodium ion transport across the renal tubular epithelium. Its primary site of action is in the cortical diluting segment of the ascending limb of the loop of Henle. Thiazides and related compounds also decrease the glomerular filtration rate, which further reduces the drug's efficacy in patients with renal impairment (e.g. renal insufficiency). By increasing the delivery of sodium to the distal renal tubule, chlorthalidone indirectly increases potassium excretion via the sodium-potassium exchange mechanism (i.e. apical ROMK/Na channels coupled with basolateral NKATPases). This can result in hypokalemia and hypochloremia as well as a mild metabolic alkalosis; however, the diuretic efficacy of chlorthalidone is not affected by the acid-base balance of the patient being treated.

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.

Combination products

It is also available as a combination product with the beta blocker atenolol, marketed in the UK as Co-tenidone and in the US as Tenoretic.

References


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