Abstract
Background: Loop diuretics help to manage the patients with edema associated with congestive heart
failure, liver cirrhosis, and renal disease and hypertension. The patients taking loop diuretics may receive other medications
to treat comorbidities leading to drug interactions.
Methods: The literature was searched in databases such as Medline/PMC/PubMed, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library,
Science Direct, EMBASE, Web of science, Ebsco, Directory of open access journals (DOAJ) and reference
lists were used to spot relevant articles using keywords Drug interactions, Pharmacodynamic interactions, Loop
diuretics, Bumetanide, Ethacrynic acid, Furosemide, and Torsemide.
Results: Loop diuretics are associated with hypokalemia, ototoxicity and other adverse effects. The drugs affected by
hypokalemia and having the potential of inducing ototoxicity could interact with loop diuretics pharmacodynamically.
Loop diuretics can interact with drugs such as amphotericin B, digoxin, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors
(ACE inhibitors), antidiabetic drugs, antifungal agents, dobutamine, gossypoland sotalol due to diuretic associated
hypokalemia. In addition, the risk of ototoxicity could be enhanced by the concomitant use of loop diuretics and
cisplatin, aminoglycoside antibiotics or phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE 5) inhibitors. Loop diuretics may also interact
pharmacodynamically with drugs like cephalosporins, ceritinib, levothyroxine, pixantrone, probenecid, lithium, nonsteroidal
anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), sulfonylureas and herbal drugs.
Conclusion: Clinicians, pharmacists and other health care providers should take responsibility for the safe use of
medications. In addition, they are required to be aware of the drugs interacting with loop diuretics to prevent adverse
drug interactions.
Keywords:
Drug interactions, loop diuretics, furosemide, bumetanide, torsemide, ethacrynic acid.
Graphical Abstract
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