OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of diuretics and dopamine for both the prevention and treatment of renal dysfunction in the acute care setting. STUDY IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION: Studies were identified via MEDLINE, and through bibliographies of primary and review articles. Articles were then screened by the author for studies addressing the use of diuretics or dopamine in the prevention and...

A study of certain representative diuretics on renal function, as measured by the urea clearance test, has been undertaken to determine whether these substances have an accelerating or retarding action on the excretion of urea. Practically, it seemed important to know whether studies of kidney function may be carried out, without interference, during the often necessary administration of diuret...

Loop diuretics are used in patients with heart failure (HF) to relieve symptoms of systemic and pulmonary venous congestion. Despite their nearly universal use for this indication, loop diuretics have not been shown to improve survival—indeed, a number of recent studies suggest an adverse relationship between the use of loop diuretics and survival (1–3). This is plausible because loop diuretics...

Diuretics (see Table 1.1 for a physiological classification) remain an important part of the medical therapy for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). They control fluid retention and rapidly relieve the congestive symptoms of heart failure (HF). The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association assigned them a class I indication in patients with symptomatic heart failure wh...

food dehydration process in several reasons, causes deteriorate qualitative characteristics in final products. it is necessary to use some pretreatments such as osmotic dehydration. in this research, during osmotic dehydration of pear rings, the effects of concentration of sucrose solutions of 50 and 60 percent (w/w), in constant temperature of 30ºc, and reconstitution of osmotic solutions (unt...

MAIN RESULTS Over 10 years, 413 people (4%) receiving continuous treatment with lithium were admitted into hospital at least once for lithium toxicity. Of these, 15% required critical care, 3% dialysis, and 5% died before discharge. Existing use of loop diuretics and ACE inhibitors was associated with a modestly increased risk of lithium toxicity. Initiating loop diuretics or ACE inhibitors sig...

Diuretics have been used as antihypertensive agents since the advent of mercurial diuretics. However, resurrection of thiazides in treatment of hypertension began after the Antihypertensive and Lipid‑Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack (ALLHAT) trial [1] which brought back diuretics to the forefront in Joint National Committee 7 (JNC 7) recommendations for hypertension. ALLHAT showed tha...

Experimental analysis of renal regulation of sodium and chloride excretion is complicated by the fact that the functional contributions of the proximal and the distal tubular segments to the urinary electrolyte pattern cannot be readily separated. If electrolyte transport in one of these tubular sites could be significantly depressed without affecting the other, it might be possible to clarify ...