GI drugs Flashcards
A 55 year old woman with T1DM of 40 years duration complains of severe blaoting and abdominal distress especially after meal. Evauluation is consistent with diabetic gastroparesis. Which of the following is a prokinetic drug that could be used in this situation?
Metoclopramide
A patient who is taking verapamil for hypertension and angina has become constipated. WHich of the following drugs is an osmotic laxative. That could be used to treat the patient’s constipation?
Magnesium hydoxide
Inhibits stomach acid by irreversibly inhibits H+/K+ ATPase in the parietal cell
Esomeprazole
A 25 year old college student went to student health care center for severe cramps, diarrhea, fever and weight loss. She was diagnosied with Corhn’s disease. Which dug is most likely to be used in the treatment?
Mesalamine
A 34 year old woman has IBD with diarrhea that is not responsive to conventional therapies. Despite the small risk of severe constipation and ischemic colitis. The patinet decides to begin therapy woth alosetron. Alosetron has which receptor actions?
5-HT3 anatagonist
On your way to an examiantion, you experience the vulnerable feeling that an attack of diarrhea is imminent. If you stopped ate a drugstore, what drug can be bought OTC at a drugstore despite being an opiod analgesic
Loperamide
What antibiotics can be used in eradiacting intestinal H.pylori
Clarithromycin
- Other
- amoxicillin
- tetracycline
- metronidazole
A patient is receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy for metastatic carcinoma. to prevent chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. She is likely to be treated with which of the following?
Ondansetron
Which drug stimulates chloride secretion into the gut lumen and is used for IBD?
Linaclotide
This is a small molecule that polymerizes in stomach acid and coats the ulcer bed, resulting in accelerated healing and reduction of symptoms
Sucralfate
Proton pump inhibitors
irreversible blockade of H+/K+ ATPase in active parietal cells
Used in peptic ulcer, GERD, erosive gastritis
Half-lives much shorter than duration of action
Low toxicity. reduction of stomach acid nay reduce absorption of some drugs and increase that of others
H2-receptor blockers
(cimetidine, famotidine, nizatidine, ranitidine)
Reduce noctural acid but less effective than PPIs against stimulatred secretion; very safe, available over the counter.
Cimetidine, but not other H2 blockers, is a weka antiandrogenic agent and a potent P450 enzyme
Polymerzies at the site of tissue and protect agaisnt further damage; very insoluble with no sytemic effects; must be given 4x daily
Sucralfate
Popular OTC medication for symptomatic relief of heartburn; not as useful as PPIs and H2 blockers in peptic disease
Antacids
Metoclopramide
D2 receptor blocker. Icnreases gastric emptying and intestinal motility
Used in gastric paresis. antiemetic
Oral and parenteral formualtions
SE: parkinsonian symptoms due to block of CNS D2 receptors