heart failure patients taking an ACE inhibitor, loop diuretic, and digoxin. [37] A total of 1663 heart failure patients were enrolled. The ejection fraction in these patients was less than 35% and ...

New evidence contradicts decades-old advice and shows that unlimited fluids are safe and ease discomfort from thirst.

Liberal fluid intake was safe and suggestive of better health status: this should be enough to stop restricting patients to 1 ...

People with heart failure have long been advised to limit the amount of fluids they consume each day to help reduce ...

People with heart failure have long been advised to limit the amount of fluids they consume each day to help reduce congestion, or the buildup of fluid in the lungs and extremities, but that advice ...

Chronic heart failure is a syndrome ... and the dose must be adjusted in the setting of renal failure. The loop diuretics (so called because they act at the loop of Henle) furosemide, bumetanide ...

Intravenous diuretic therapy is the current standard of care for hypervolemic heart failure, but loop diuretics decrease in effectiveness with repeated use. In addition, several studies have ...

A new study that looked at how liberal vs. restrictive fluid restriction impacts health status for patients with chronic ...

Most participants were taking standard heart failure medications and about half were taking loop diuretics, a type of drug that helps to manage swelling and fluid retention. Half of the ...