Bioavailability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of torsemide in patients with cirrhosis

The bioavailability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of torsemide (10 mg orally and intravenously) were determined in a randomized crossover clinical trial with 12 patients with ascites caused by cirrhosis. Torsemide was rapidly absorbed with a bioavailability of 96.3% (confidence interval, 84% to 109%). Compared with healthy subjects, patients with cirrhosis exhibit a decrease in nonrenal clearance and increases in bioavailability, volume of distribution, renal clearance, elimination half-life, and percentage of the dose excreted into the urine. A greater proportion of the dose is delivered to the site of action over a more prolonged period of time. In spite of a shift of the pharmacodynamic curve to the right in patients with cirrhosis, there was no significant difference in natriuresis. Pharmacokinetic changes of torsemide in cirrhosis therefore compensate for the pharmacodynamic abnormality.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1993

Erschienen:

1993

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:54

Enthalten in:

Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 54(1993), 1 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 90-7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Schwartz, S [VerfasserIn]
Brater, D C [VerfasserIn]
Pound, D [VerfasserIn]
Green, P K [VerfasserIn]
Kramer, W G [VerfasserIn]
Rudy, D [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Clinical Trial
Diuretics
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Sulfonamides
Torsemide
W31X2H97FB

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Date Completed 19.08.1993

Date Revised 12.05.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM08305216X