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Medical treatment of ascites in cirrhosis [PDF]

, 1993
Medical treatment of cirrhotic ascites is essentially supportive, dictated by the patient's discomfort, impaired cardiovascular or respiratory function and potential for infection. Treatment of ‘simple’ ascites (moderate fluid accumulation, serum albumin
Alexander L. Gerbes, Bernardi, Bichet, Bosch, Broekhuysen, Caramelo, Conn, DiBona, Epstein, Faloon, Fogel, Fuller, Ganger, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Ginès, Gregory, Guarner, Henriksen, Hoermann, Jüngst, Karnad, Keppler, Laffi, Lenz, Levy, Moore, Perez-Ayuso, Petrillo, Pockros, Ring-Larsen, Schrier, Schölmerich, Shear, Sherlock   +41 more
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Magnesium: The Forgotten Electrolyte—A Review on Hypomagnesemia

Medical Sciences, 2019
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant cation in the body and the second most abundant intracellular cation. It plays an important role in different organ systems at the cellular and enzymatic levels.
Faheemuddin Ahmed, Abdul Mohammed
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Determinação de fármacos diuréticos em associação por cromatografia em camada delgada e espectrofotometria Determination of diuretic drugs by thin layer chromatography and spectrophotometry

Química Nova, 2008
A rapid, sensitive and reliable thin-layer chromatography/spectrophotometry screening procedure was developed for quantitative determination of diuretics associated in pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Dênia Mendes de Sousa Valladão, Massao Ionashiro, José Zuanon Netto   +2 more
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Improving Postdischarge Outcomes in Acute Heart Failure [PDF]

, 2018
The global burden that acute heart failure (AHF) carries has remained unchanged over the past several decades (1). European registries (2–5) showed that 1-year outcome rates remain unacceptably high (Table 1) and confirm that hospitalization for AHF ...
Ambrosy, Andrew P., Antohi, Elena-Laura, Butler, Javed, Chioncel, Ovidiu, Collins, Sean P., Iliescu, Vlad Anton, Maggioni, Aldo P., Mebazaa, Alexandre, Pang, Peter S.   +8 more
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Circadian patterns in postvoid residual and voided percentage among older women with urinary incontinence [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Women with urinary incontinence incur an increased risk of elevated postvoid residual (PVR) volume and impaired voiding efficiency (i.e., voided percentage (Void%)), but the clinical significance of these parameters remains poorly described ...
Decalf, Veerle, Denys, Marie-Astrid, Everaert, Karel, Monaghan, Thomas, Petrovic, Mirko, Pieters, Ronny, Weiss, Jeffrey   +6 more
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A new era in hypertension research: discussing the findings of ALLHAT

Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2001
The key question in hypertension research today is, "Does it matter how elevated blood pressure is lowered?" The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) initiated in 1994 serves as a model for comparative ...
Furberg Curt D
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Effects of sacubitril/valsartan in the PARADIGM-HF Trial (Prospective Comparison of ARNI with ACEI to Determine Impact on Global Mortality and Morbidity in Heart Failure) according to background therapy [PDF]

, 2016
Background—In the PARADIGM-HF trial (Prospective Comparison of ARNI with ACEI to Determine Impact on Global Mortality and Morbidity in Heart Failure), the angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor sacubitril/valsartan was more effective than the ...
Gong, Jianjian, Jhund, Pardeep S., Lefkowitz, Martin P., McMurray, John J.V., Okumura, Naoki, Packer, Milton, Rizkala, Adel R., Rouleau, Jean L., Shi, Victor C., Solomon, Scott D., Swedberg, Karl, Zile, Michael R.   +11 more
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Effects of chlorthalidone and diltiazem on myocardial ischemia in elderly patients with hypertension and coronary artery disease

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2001
OBJETIVE: Antihypertensive therapy with thiazides decreases coronary events in elderly patients. However, the influence of diuretics on myocardial ischemia has not been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of chlorthalidone
João Batista Serro-Azul, Rogério Silva de Paula, César Gruppi, Lígia Pinto, Humberto Pierri, Amit Nussbacher, Otávio Gebara, Paulo Moffa, Antônio Carlos Pereira-Barreto, Maurício Wajngarten   +9 more
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Combination Therapy Is Superior to Sequential Monotherapy for the Initial Treatment of Hypertension: A Double‐Blind Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017
BackgroundGuidelines for hypertension vary in their preference for initial combination therapy or initial monotherapy, stratified by patient profile; therefore, we compared the efficacy and tolerability of these approaches.
Thomas M. MacDonald, Bryan Williams, David J. Webb, Steve Morant, Mark Caulfield, J. Kennedy Cruickshank, Ian Ford, Peter Sever, Isla S. Mackenzie, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Gerald P. McCann, Jackie Salsbury, Gordon McInnes, Morris J. Brown   +13 more
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A combined clinical and biomarker approach to predict diuretic response in acute heart failure [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Poor diuretic response in acute heart failure is related to poor clinical outcome. The underlying mechanisms and pathophysiology behind diuretic resistance are incompletely understood.
Bloomfield, Daniel M., Bruno, Noemi, Cleland, John G.F., Cotter, Gad, Damman, Kevin, Davison, Beth, Dittrich, Howard C., Givertz, Michael M., Hillege, Hans L., Metra, Marco, O’Connor, Christopher M., Ponikowski, Piotr, Teerlink, John R., ter Maaten, Jozine M., Valente, Mattia A.E., van Veldhuisen, Dirk J., Voors, Adriaan A.   +16 more
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