Medically reviewed by Melissa Nieves, LND A diuretic is a food or medication that decreases swelling caused by fluid ...

Furosemide is the most widely prescribed loop diuretic in the setting of systolic heart failure (HF), yet torsemide has been shown to have less inter- and intra-individual variation in ...

Treatment of ascites is initially based on diuretics, but randomized studies assessing the efficacy of different combinations of diuretics are very scarce. Angeli et al. compared the efficacy and ...