"Diuretics, Osmotic" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Compounds that increase urine volume by increasing the amount of osmotically active solute in the urine. Osmotic diuretics also increase the osmolarity of plasma.
| Descriptor ID |
D004234
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.696.560.500.453
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Diuretics, Osmotic" by people in Profiles.
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Hyperosmolar therapy: A century of treating cerebral edema. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2021 Jul; 206:106704.
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Hypertonic saline in elevated intracranial pressure: past, present, and future. J Intensive Care Med. 2015 Jan; 30(1):8-12.
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Hyperosmolar therapy for raised intracranial pressure. N Engl J Med. 2012 12 27; 367(26):2556; author reply 2556-7.
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Prevention of secondary ischemic insults after severe head injury. Crit Care Med. 1999 Oct; 27(10):2086-95.
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Transport and metabolic characterization of Caco-2 cells expressing CYP3A4 and CYP3A4 plus oxidoreductase. Pharm Res. 1999 Sep; 16(9):1352-9.
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Effect of seizures and diuretics on the osmolality of the cerebrospinal fluid. Brain Res. 1997 Jan 16; 745(1-2):328-30.
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Necrosis of the gastrointestinal tract in uremic patients as a result of sodium polystyrene sulfonate (Kayexalate) in sorbitol: an underrecognized condition. Am J Surg Pathol. 1997 Jan; 21(1):60-9.