The effect of fenoldopam on renal function in patients undergoing elective aortic surgery

Halpenny, M.; Rushe, C.; Breen, Patrick J.; Cunningham, A. J.; Boucher-Hayes, D.; Shorten, George

doi:10.1097/00003643-200100001-00325

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“…Fenoldopam is a selective dopamine-1 receptor agonist with no β-1 or α-adrenergic receptor agonistic eff ects and similar to dopamine, it increases renal plasma fl ow with no eff ects on GFR, as demonstrated in healthy volunteers [25]. In three pre ventive, randomized controlled trials in abdomi nal aortic surgery [26] and high-risk cardiac surgery [27], fenoldopam improved creatinine clearance compared to placebo. Th ese bene fi cial eff ects on renal outcome with fenoldopam and the lack of similar benefi cial eff ects with dopamine (see above), despite similar pharmacological actions, could be explained by the fact that the potential preventive renal eff ects with dopamine and fenoldopam were evaluated in low-risk and high-risk patients, respect ively.…”

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Renal Oxygenation in Clinical Acute Kidney Injury

Ricksten¹,

Bragadottir²,

Redfors³

2013

Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2013

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Renal oxygenation is defi ned as the relationship between renal oxygen delivery (DO 2 ) and renal oxygen consumption (VO 2 ) and it can easily be shown that the inverse of this relationship is equivalent to renal extraction of O 2 (O 2 Ex). An increase in renal O 2 Ex means that renal DO 2 has decreased in relation to renal VO 2 , i. e., renal oxygenation is impaired, and vice versa. When compared to other major organs, renal VO 2 is relatively high, second only to the heart. In sedated, mechanically ventilated patients, renal VO 2 is two-thirds (10 ml/min) that of myocardial oxygen consumption (15 ml/min) (Table 1) [1,2]. Renal blo od fl ow, w hich accounts for approximately 20 % of cardiac output, is three times higher than myocardial blood fl ow in this group of patients. Renal O 2 Ex in the non-failing kidney is therefore low, 10 %, compared with, e.g., the heart, in which O 2 E X is 55 % (Table 1). Determin a nts of renal oxygenationIt is well known from experimental studies that tubular sodium reabsorption is the major determinant of renal VO 2 [3] and tha t under normal physiological conditions, approximately 80 % is used to drive active tubular transport of particularly sodium, but also glucose, amino acids and other solutes. Tubular transport processes are highly load-dependent and it has been shown in experimental studies [4] and in p atients [2,[5][6][7] that the re i s a close linear correlation between glomerular fi ltration rate (GFR), renal sodium reabsorption and renal VO 2 (Fig. 1). Th e fi l tered load of sodium is, thus, an important determi nant of renal VO 2 and maneuvers that decrease GFR and the tubular sodium load act to decrease tubular sodium reabsorption and renal VO 2 , and vice versa [8]. It has b een shown that renal O 2 Ex remains stable over a wide range of renal blood fl ows, which means that changes in renal DO 2 , caused by changes in renal blood fl ow, are directly off set by changes in renal VO 2 [9], i. e., r enal VO 2 is fl ow-dependent. Th us, unlike other organs where increases in blood fl ow will improve oxygenation, increased renal blood fl ow augments GFR and the fi ltered load of sodium, which will increase renal VO 2 . Due to this fl ow-dependency of renal VO 2 , renal oxygenation will re main constant, as long as renal blood fl ow and GFR change in parallel. Regional intrarenal oxygenation and medullary hypoxiaTh e relatively high renal blood fl ow is directed preferentially to the cortex to optimize the fi ltration process and solute reabsorption. In contrast, blood fl ow in the outer medulla is less than 50 % of the cortical blood fl ow to preserve osmotic gradients and to enhance urinary concentration [10]. Th e combi nation of low me dullary perfusion, high oxygen consumption of the medullary thick ascending limbs (mTAL) and the countercurrent exchange of oxygen within the vasa recta, results in a poorly oxygenated outer medulla [11]. Oxygen av ailability is, therefore, low in the outer medulla, which has an oxygen tissue partial pressure (PO 2 ) of 10-20 mm Hg ...

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Section: Eff Ects Of Dopaminergic Agents On Renal Oxygenation In the mentioning

confidence: 99%