Bahouth: Diuretics and Aquaretics Flashcards
What is the main reason to use diuretics?
To mobilize sodium (to urinate)
Where does carbonic anhydrase (CA) act in the nephron?
PCT (90%)
DCT (10%)
What does CA do?
converts H2CO3 to H20 + CO2 (and vice versa)
What are the net effects of CA inhibitors?
- bicarbonate loss in urine
- alkaline urine
- enhanced chloride reabsorption (acidosis)
What are clinical uses of CA inhibitors?
- to akalinize urine in pts with cysteinurea
- to reduce intraocular pressure (used pre-operatively for glaucoma surgery)
- prophylactic tx of mountain sickness
What is an example of a CA inhibitor?
Acetazolamide
What are side effects of CA inhibitors?
- metabolic acidosis (bc of increased Cl- reabsorption)
- increased K+ loss in urine (acute effect)
What are characteristics of osmotic diuretics?
- small molecules (filterable)
- not reabsorbed
- inert
- not metabolized
What is the MOA of osmotic diuretics in the PCT (minor role)?
osmotically inhibit Na+ and H20 reabsorption (bc it increases tubular osmolarity)
What is the MOA of osmotic diuretics in the Loop of Henle (major role)?
- increase the osmolarity of plasma
- which extracts H20 from peripheral tissues and decreases blood viscosity
- which increases medullary RBF and reduces its tonicity
- impaired water reabsorption by thin DLH
- impaired NaCL and urea extraction by thin ALH
What is the net effect of osmotic diuretics?
significantly increase urine (this class increases volume of urine the most) with small increments of NaCL
what are clinical uses of osmotic diuretics?
- tx of dialysis disequilibrium syndrome
- reduce intra cranial pressure (from head trauma)
- reduce intraocular pressure
What is an example of an osmotic diuretic?
Mannitol (a sugar alcohol)
what are side effects of osmotic diuretics?
volume overload
What is a contraindication of osmotic diuretics?
cardiac failure