Many people avoid salt and take diuretic drugs like Lasix (furosemide) to manage serious health conditions including heart ...

Fluid accumulation producing edematous states is a common problem encountered in patients with CHF. Management of the edematous state usually includes diuresis in combination with fluid and sodium ...

Although diuretics do not directly treat the pathologic changes that occur with heart failure, they are the mainstay of symptomatic treatment to remove excess extracellular fluid, thus alleviating ...

Treatment of ascites is initially based on diuretics, but randomized studies assessing the efficacy of different combinations of diuretics are very scarce. Angeli et al. compared the efficacy and ...