Diuretic Strategies in Patients with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

G. Michael Felker, Kerry L. Lee, David A. Bull, Margaret M. Redfield, Lynne W. Stevenson, Steven R. Goldsmith, Martin M. LeWinter, Anita Deswal, Jean L. Rouleau, Elizabeth Ofili,

New England Journal of Medicine · 2011 · 1.6K citations · 26 references

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Abstract

Among patients with acute decompensated heart failure, there were no significant differences in patients' global assessment of symptoms or in the change in renal function when diuretic therapy was administered by bolus as compared with continuous infusion or at a high dose as compared with a low dose. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00577135.).

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