Elevation of the serum urate is well recognized as an invariable side effect of treatment with all diuretics except those agents, such as triamterene and amiloride, that retain potassium. Practitioners cannot fail to appreciate the frequency of hyperuricemia in many of their patients because, even in asymptomatic patients, it is regularly brought to ...
Emmerson, Bryan T., Emmerson B.T.
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Rational pharmacotherapy of arterial hypertension in real clinical practice: diuretics through drug safety [PDF]
The use of diuretics in arterial hypertension is pathogenetically justified, which is due to the significant role of an increase in the volume of circulating blood and the retention of sodium ions in the internal environment of the body, in increasing ...
Dmitry I. Trukhan, Natalya V. Bagisheva
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Diuretics and Their Application [PDF]
Reviewed in the literature of this thesis are the classes of diuretic drugs and their mechanism of action, the form of diuretic therapy taken depending on the kind of illness, the different drug interactions, and adverse effects different classes of ...
Akinmosin, Oladipo Samson
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Comparison of single and combination diuretics on glucose tolerance (PATHWAY-3):protocol for a randomised double-blind trial in patients with essential hypertension [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Thiazide diuretics are associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus. This risk may arise from K(+)-depletion. We hypothesised that a K(+)-sparing diuretic will improve glucose tolerance, and that combination of low-dose thiazide with
Salsbury, J +21 more
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Diuretics as pathogenetic treatment for heart failure [PDF]
Maya GuglinUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USAAbstract: Increased intracardiac filling pressure or congestion causes symptoms and leads to hospital admissions in patients with heart failure, regardless of their systolic function.
Maya Guglin
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Prevalence of thiamine deficiency in heart failure patients on long-term diuretic therapy
Background: Loop diuretics are an integral part of heart failure management. It has been shown that loop diuretics cause thiamine deficiency (TD) by increasing its urinary loss. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of TD in heart failure
Shrenik Doshi +5 more
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Rationale and Objective: Serum magnesium levels have been inversely yet inconsistently associated with cardiovascular (CV) outcomes. In this study, we examined the association of serum magnesium levels with CV outcomes in the Systolic Blood Pressure ...
Silvia Ferrè +10 more
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Use of diuretics and risk of incident gout : Population-based case-control study [PDF]
Objective: Use of diuretics has been associated with an increased risk of gout. Data for different types of diuretics are scarce. This study investigated the association between use of loop diuretics, thiazide or thiazide-like diuretics, and potassium ...
Meier, Christoph R. +9 more
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New Strategies for Volume Control in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus, a Narrative Review
Sodium is reabsorbed all along the renal tubules. The positive impacts of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor (ARNI) and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) on hard renal and/or cardiac ...
Alexandre O. Gérard +7 more
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Use of piretanide, a new loop diuretic in cirrhosis with ascites. Relationship between the diuretic response and the plasma aldosterone level [PDF]
Twenty patients with cirrhosis and ascites but no renal failure were given piretanide, a new loop diuretic, in order to investigate its efficacy and to relate the diuretic response with the pretreatment plasma aldosterone concentration.
Rivera Fillat, Francisca +5 more
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