Close to 6 million Americans live with heart failure, and each of their hospitalizations for the condition carries an average cost of $11,500, or $11 billion in total costs each year. Because no ...

For patients with chronic heart failure (HF) who have persistent congestion despite high doses of oral loop diuretics, the right way to intensify diuretics in the outpatient setting may be narrowed, ...

PRAGUE, Czechia—The number of people taking loop diuretics without a diagnosis of heart failure (HF) may be many times higher than the number of HF patients on these meds, according to an analysis of ...

Acetazolamide added to intravenous loop diuretics decreases congestion within three days in patients with acute decompensated heart failure, according to late breaking research presented in a Hot Line ...

People with heart failure are often prescribed what are known as loop diuretic medications to help reduce the fluid buildup that's a hallmark of the disease. Now, research suggests that taking the ...

In medicine, we're often led to believe that "more is better." More interventions will result in better outcomes. More monitoring will result in earlier detection. More education will improve ...

Semaglutide reduces the need for loop diuretic use and dose, and has positive effects on symptoms, physical limitations, and body weight in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction ...

Thirst outcomes were investigated among patients with stable heart failure (HF), due to the limited data available on this relationship and how it, along with fluid and sodium intake, influences ...

Study finds no significant difference in hospitalization and death rates between patients who had a loop diuretic prescription at the time of peritoneal dialysis vs those who did not. Loop diuretic ...

Dapagliflozin (Farxiga) appears to be no more effective than the "thiazide-like" diuretic metolazone at improving pulmonary congestion and fluid status in patients with acute heart failure (AHF), ...

A new analysis suggests that finerenone (Kerendia), a newer heart failure medication, may help older adults rely less on high doses of water pills. The findings come from the large FINEARTS-HF ...