METABOLISM OF SYNTHANE: COMPARISON WITH IN VIVO AND IN VITRO DEFLUORINATION OF OTHER HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON ANAESTHETICS

Aerobic defluorination of the inhalation anaesthetic agent, synthane, was compared with that of methoxyflurane, enflurane and halothane and with two other anaesthetics, isoflurane and sevo flurane. In vitro, in microsomes prepared from phenobarbitone induced and control livers, synthane and halothan...

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Published in:British journal of anaesthesia : BJA 1979-09, Vol.51 (9), p.839-844
Main Authors: MAZZE, R.I., BEPPU, W.J., HITT, B.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anesthesia, Inhalation
Anesthetics - metabolism
Animals
Biotransformation
Enflurane - metabolism
Ether - metabolism
Ethyl Ethers - metabolism
Fluorides - urine
Halothane - metabolism
Hydrocarbons, Fluorinated - metabolism
In Vitro Techniques
Isoflurane - metabolism
Male
Methoxyflurane - metabolism
Microsomes, Liver - metabolism
Rats
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Summary:Aerobic defluorination of the inhalation anaesthetic agent, synthane, was compared with that of methoxyflurane, enflurane and halothane and with two other anaesthetics, isoflurane and sevo flurane. In vitro, in microsomes prepared from phenobarbitone induced and control livers, synthane and halothane were not defluorinated. The relative order of defluorination of the other anaesthetics was methoxyflurane > sevoflurane > enflurane > isoflurane. In vivo, following 4 h of 1.2% (MAC) synthane anaesthesia, urinary inorganic fluoride excretion was increased by only a trivial amount and only in phenobarbitone treated rats; polyuria was not observed. Synthane is the least metabolized of the fluorinated ether anaesthetics; its administration will not result in inorganic fluoride neph ropathy. An index of nephrotoxic potential for fluorinated anaesthetic agents was formulated utilizing in vitro fluoride production data and oil: gas partition coefficients.
ISSN:0007-0912
1471-6771
DOI:10.1093/bja/51.9.839