Mannitol therapy revisited (1940-1997)
Mannitol therapy revisited (1940-1997)
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DOI:
10.1038/ki.1997.409
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发表时间:
1997-10-01
影响因子:
19.6
通讯作者:
Knochel, JP
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作者:
Better, OS;Rubinstein, I;Knochel, JP
The purpose of the present communication is to review the effect of mannitol on normal kidney function as well as its clinical therapeutic potential in the prevention of ARF and protection of skeletal muscle function following crush injury. Osmotic diuretics are freely filterable, low molecular weight substances that due to their limited reabsorption and small size create an osmotic force in the tubular fluid sufficient to retard the reabsorption of fluids and solutes (notably NaCI) along the nephron. Thus, osmotic diuresis results in urinary loss of water, sodium, potassium and divalent cations. Mannitol, a six-carbon nonmetabolizable polyacohol with a molecular weight of 182, is perhaps the oldest and most widely employed osmotic diuretic agent [21. Numerous studies in experimental animals and humans, under both physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions, have contributed significantly to our understanding of its renal and extrarenal actions. A compound with similar effects is sorhitol. Glucose may likewise act as an" endog-enous" osmotic diuretic agent when present at sufficiently high concentrations in the glomerular filtrate, to exceed the reabsorp-tion capacity of the proximal nephron. Other partially or poorly reabsorbable agents, such as urea and sulfates, were included in the past in the category of osmotic diuretics, because, when present in high concentrations in plasma, they may increase urine flow rate, in part by a mechanism similar to that of mannitol [4]. Beyond its action as a diuretic agent, mannitol has been used by many renal physiologists, over the past five decades, as an important tool in the study of the mechanisms of salt and water transport at the tubular and cellular level. As a physiologic probe, mannitol has contributed to our understanding of these transport processes.