- 著者
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塚本 晶子
本間 真人
神林 泰行
木津 純子
幸田 幸直
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人日本医療薬学会
- 雑誌
- 医療薬学 (ISSN:1346342X)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.33, no.8, pp.687-692, 2007 (Released:2009-09-04)
- 参考文献数
- 16
- 被引用文献数
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One of the major adverse effects of Shakuyaku-kanzo-To (SKT),a herbal medicine containing licorice,is licoriceinduced pseudoaldosteronism with hypokalemia and hypertension.Owing to the risk of hypokalemia,caution should be therefore exercised when SKT is co-administered with potassium lowering drugs.In order to clarify this risk,we examined the occurrence of hypokalemia in 103 patients receiving SKT.Thirty (29.1%) of the 103 patients developed hypokalemia and SKT dosing periods tended to be longer in these patients than in those who did not develop hypokalemia (54.5 vs.23.0 days,respectively).The co-administration of potassium lowering drugs was more frequent in the patients with hypokalemia (90.0% vs.64.4% for no hypokalemia p<0.01).The occurrence rates of hypokalemia varied with drugs co-administered with SKT ; with 75.0% for glycyrrhizin preparations,47.2% for diuretics,41.9% for glucocorticoids,20.0% for sennoside preparations and 25.0% for others.The above results confirmed that the co-administration of potassium lowering drugs enhanced SKT-induced hypokalemia.Frequent serum potassium monitoring is therefore required when potassium lowering drugs,especially glycyrrhizin preparations,diuretics and glucocorticoids,are co-administered to patients receiving SKT.