A Louisville woman’s estate has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Walgreens drugstore in Jeffersontown and one of its pharmacists, claiming she died as the result of getting the wrong prescription.

The family of Mary Moore claims in the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Jefferson Circuit Court, that she presented a prescription to Walgreens for Hydralazine, a high blood pressure medication, in November 2010 but instead received an antihistamine, Hydroxyzine.

Moore had previously been hospitalized with high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and kidney failure, according to the suit, which claims Hydroxyzine is a high-risk medicine for the elderly that’s known to cause confusion and oversedation.

The suit claims Moore was not given counseling regarding the medication she was given, where the pharmacist would have noticed the mistake, according to the suit.

Moore’s hypertension went untreated for two weeks before the error was discovered and the pharmacy substituted the correct medication, “but it was too late” and Moore was soon hospitalized and died, according to the suit.

“She knew she was going to die and nothing could be done to save her life,” the suit claims.

Anthony Bower is named as the pharmacist in charge that day at the store, at 2360 Stony Brook Drive.

Claims made in filing a lawsuit present only one side of a case.

The pharmacy on Wednesday said neither Bower nor anyone else there could comment and referred a reporter to the national Walgreen Corp., which is also named in the suit.

Vivika Panagiotakakos, a spokeswoman, said the company does not comment on pending litigation.

The suit is seeking compensatory and punitive damages as well as a jury trial.