Very early diuretic response after admission for acute heart failure

Intravenous loop diuretics are the cornerstone of treatment of hospitalized heart failure patients (1-3). A poorer response to diuretic treatment was consistently related to worse outcomes. Poor renal function, low systolic blood pressure, ischemic etiology of heart failure, and diabetes are associated with poor diuretic response (DR) during 24-96 hours after hospital admission (4-6). Therefore, strategies to improve DR in hospitalized heart failure patients are currently being considered. However, some important information for these strategies are currently missing.

Source: Journal of Cardiac Failure - September 13, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Shunsuke Kuroda, Kevin Damman, Jozine M. ter Maaten, Adriaan A. Voors, Takahiro Okumura, Keisuke Kida, Shogo Oishi, Eiichi Akiyama, Satoshi Suzuki, Masayoshi Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitai, Kazuki Yoshida, Akihiko Matsumura, Yuya Matsue Tags: Clinical Investigation Source Type: research