[Captopril in the treatment of mild cardiac insufficiency in combination with arterial hypertension].

The results of clinicoinstrumental investigations in 33 patients with coronary heart disease and coronary heart disease combined with essential hypertension complicated by stage I-II cardiac insufficiency showed that therapy with captopril at a daily dose of 25-75 mg resulted in the correction of cardiac insufficiency in 84% of the patients, with a hypotensive effect in 80%. Captopril improved myocardial contractility, decreased pressure in the pulmonary artery and total peripheral vascular resistance and produced no major side-effects.