Ethacrynic acid in blood transfusion--its effects on plasma volume and urine flow in severe anaemia in pregnancy.

Abstract

Thirty grossly anaemic pregnant Nigerian women with venous haematocrit levels varying between 6 and 17%, had their plasma volumes estimated by the Evans blue dye dilution technique, both before and immediately after direct transfusion of packed blood cells. Parenteral ethacrynic acid was added to the blood for transfusion in 20 patients, seven of whom were in anaemic heart failure on admission. Ethacrynic acid used in this way was successful in the prevention of acute pulmonary oedema, and it produced acute diuresis as well as a reduction of plasma volume in the majority of cases. This technique of direct transfusion with ethacrynic acid is simple, and it may well replace exchange transfusion as a means of treating patients with anaemic heart failure.

• Authors: K A Harrison
• Journal: British medical journal (Br Med J) Vol. 4 Issue 5623 Pg. 84-6 (Oct 12 1968) ISSN: 0007-1447 [Print] England
• PMID: 4880260 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Ethacrynic Acid

Topics

• Anemia (therapy)
• Blood Transfusion
• Blood Volume (drug effects)
• Diuresis (drug effects)
• Dye Dilution Technique
• Edema (drug therapy)
• Ethacrynic Acid (therapeutic use)
• Female
• Heart Diseases (drug therapy)
• Hematocrit
• Humans
• Plasma Volume (drug effects)
• Postpartum Period
• Pregnancy
• Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic (therapy)
• Pulmonary Edema (drug therapy, prevention & control)