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In renal impairment

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As for any prescribing in renal impairment, appendix III in the BNF should be consulted.

Renal impairment is common, increasing in the elderly. Toxicity occurs frequently and is avoidable. Mechanisms include:

  • diminished renal excretion
  • plasma protein binding
  • altered drug action, e.g. CNS depressants, hypotensive vasodilators, anticoagulants, NSAIDS, acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

Reference

  1. Jackson EK. Drugs affecting renal excretory function. In, Brunton LL, Hilal-Dandan R, Knollman BC, eds. Goodman & Gilman’s the pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 13th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2018, pp. 445-70.

 

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