Starting dapagliflozin (Farxiga) early during acute heart failure hospitalization didn't boost decongestion, although it appeared to spare loop diuretic doses and increase diuresis compared with usual ...

A recent study co-authored by Dr. Matthew Segar, a third-year cardiovascular disease fellow at The Texas Heart Institute and led by his research and residency mentor, University of Texas Southwestern ...

Most accepted pharmacologic treatments for heart failure are supported by evidence from large clinical trials. In contrast, evidence from large, well-controlled clinical trials to guide the use of ...

Diuretics can help flush your body of excess water. Foods such as coffee, green and black tea, and parsley are natural diuretics. Diuretics are substances that increase the amount of urine you produce ...

ATHENS — A bedside device that both measures urine output and delivers saline to maintain a preset degree of volume reduction from loop diuretics could potentially take some of the worry out of ...

In nine separate studies on four patients with severe pitting edema, aldosterone secretion fell during a 24-hour period of acute salt and water depletion induced by diuretics. These results contrast ...