3. INTRODUCTION :-
• Kidney is mainly a regulatory organ
• It has also a excretory function
• The functional unit of kidney is nephron
• Each kidney contain about 1 million nedphron
FUNCTION OF KIDNEY :-
1. Regulatory :- acid –base fluid and electrolyte balance
2. Excretory :- excretion of nitrogenous waste products
3. Hormonal :- activation of vitamin D , production of renin and
erythropoietin
4. CLASSIFICATION OF DIURETICS :-
According to primary site of action in the nephron :-
1. Drugs acting to PCT (site 1):-
carbonic anhydrase inhibitor :_ Acetazolamide
2. Drugs acting at thick ascending limb of loop of henle (site 2):-
Loop diuretics :- furosemide , bumetanide, torsemide
3. Drugs acting at early distal tubule (site 3) :-
a) Thiazide :-chlorothiazide , hydrochlorothiazide ,hydroflumethiazide ,bezthiazide
b) Thiazide related diuretics :- chlorthalidone ,indapamide metolazone
4. Drug acting at late distal tubule and collecting duct (site 4):-
a) Aldosterone antagonists :- spironolactone ,eplerenone
b) Direct acting inhibitor of renal epithelial Na+ channel:-Amiloride , triamterene
5. Drug acting on entire nephron (main site action is loop of henle ):-
a) osmotic diuretics :- mannitol , glycerol , isosorbide
6. USES :-
• Acetazolamide is not used as diuretics because of low efficacy
1. Glaucoma :- carbonic anhydrase inhibitors decreases IOP by
reducing formation of aqueous humour
2. To alkalinize urine in acidic drug poisoning
3. Acute mountain sickness :- used for both symptomatic relief
and prophylaxis of acute mountain sickness
4. Miscellaneous :- epilepsy , familial periodic paralysis
8. CONTRAINDICATION:-
1. Liver disease :- hepatic coma may precipitate in patient with
cirrhosis due to decrease excretion of NH3 in alkaline urine
2. COPD:- worsening of metabolic acidosis in patient with COPD
10. PHARMACOKINETICS:-
• Administered IV neither metabolised in body nor
reabsorbed from renal tubules .
• Pharmacodynamically inert , is freely filtered at
Glomerulus
11. USES :-
• Mannitol is used to reduce the elevated intra cranial
tension (ICT) head injury or tumour
• Mannitol (20%) IV , glycerol(50%) oral is used to reduce
IOP in acute congestive glaucoma
• Mannitol is used to maintain the osmolality of ECF after
dialysis
12. ADVERSE EFFECT:_
•Too rapid ,too much quantity of IV mannitol
cause expansion of ECF volume leads to
pulmonary oedema .
•Headache
•Nausea
•Vomiting
•Glycerol cause hyperglycaemia
16. USES:-
Useful in initial
stages of renal
and cardiac
oedema
Useful in hepatic
oedema –vigorous
diuretics should be
avoided to prevent
hepatic coma
Acute
oedema
Hypertension
23. USES:-
In oedema condition associated with CCF , hepatic
cirrhosis
CCF:-used in moderate – severe Heart failure because it
block effect of aldosterone
Used with thiazides /loop diuretics :- serum K+ level is
maintained and antihypertensive efficacy is enhanced .