Although diuretics do not directly treat the pathologic changes that occur with heart failure, they are the mainstay of symptomatic treatment to remove excess extracellular fluid, thus alleviating ...
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 ...
Benefits for coronary heart disease (CHD) were less clear, and commentators frequently speculated that potentially adverse metabolic effects—on potassium (for diuretics), lipids, and glucose—of ...
A study identified use of certain medications (eg, NSAIDs), comorbid conditions, and symptoms as risk factors for community-acquired acute kidney injury (AKI).