Noradrenaline and albumin in paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction in cirrhosis: a randomized pilot study
| Autor: | Navneet Sharma, C K Nain, Arun Sharma, Ashish Bhalla, B. Kumar, Virendra Singh, Baljinder Singh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Effective arterial blood volume
Adult Liver Cirrhosis Male medicine.medical_specialty Cirrhosis Pilot Projects Plasma renin activity Drug Costs Norepinephrine (medication) chemistry.chemical_compound Norepinephrine Albumins Renin Internal Medicine medicine Paracentesis Humans Vasoconstrictor Agents Aldosterone Blood Volume medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Albumin Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery chemistry Anesthesia Circulatory system Regression Analysis Female business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of internal medicine. 260(1) |
| ISSN: | 0954-6820 |
| Popis: | Objective. Therapeutic paracentesis in patients with cirrhosis is associated with a circulatory dysfunction. Intravenous albumin has been used to prevent the circulatory dysfunction; however, the use of albumin is controversial and costly. Splanchnic vasodilation is mainly responsible for circulatory dysfunction in these patients. There are no reports of use of noradrenaline, a vasoconstrictor, on the prevention of paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction in patients with cirrhosis. Therefore, we studied the preventive effect of noradrenaline on paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction in patients with cirrhosis after therapeutic paracentesis and compared it with that of intravenous albumin in a randomized pilot study. Methods. Forty patients with cirrhosis and tense ascites underwent therapeutic paracentesis with albumin or noradrenaline in a randomized controlled trial at a tertiary centre. Effective arterial blood volume was assessed by measuring plasma renin activity at baseline and at 6 days after treatment. Results. Effective arterial blood volume as indicated by plasma renin activity before and 6 days after paracentesis did not differ in the two groups (20.62 ± 10.27–22.02 ± 10.15 ng mL−1 h−1; P = 0.11 in the albumin group and 19.66 ± 8.91–20.78 ± 9.41 ng mL−1 h−1; P = 0.37 in the noradrenaline group). Plasma aldosterone concentration before and 6 days after paracentesis were also similar in both groups (1196.5 ± 434.2–1217.0 ± 405.7 pg mL−1; P = 0.7 in the albumin group and 1206.0 ± 522.5–1273.5 ± 444.8 pg mL−1; P = 0.22 in the noradrenaline group). The cost of noradrenaline treatment was significantly lower when compared with that of albumin (P |
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