Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Brief Overview on Nephrotoxic Drugs: A Pharmacological Approach | Chapter 9 | Current Progress in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 4

 This division highlights nephrotoxicityof drugs. Kidney is one of the internal organs maintaining equilibrium of body and thus dysfunction of sort affects characteristic of life and health harshly. Anticancer drugs, particularly chemotherapeutic agents, cause extreme toxicity leading to kind dysfunction and irreparable kidney harm. Many chemotherapeutic agents are now available to treat a variety of cancers but reactions of these drugs have brought about sure limitations in their use and eradication of tumor. Medications cause renal failure through a variety of methods. Hemodynamic renal failure grant permission result from drugs that reduce renal prostaglandins and therefore renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate. Recent study has raised doubts about association of metformin accompanying lactic acidosis as causal. Renal loss is a common comorbidity in subjects with lactic acidosis guide metformin use and plasma metformin levels are with the order reversed related to glomerular filtration rate (GFR) due to decreased clearance from the distribution.

Author(s) Details:

Tasneem Sandozi,

Dubai Medical College, UAE.

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