The Use of Diuretics in Heart Failure with Congestion — A Position Statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Müllens, Wilfried; Damman, Kevin; Harjola, Veli‐Pekka; Mebazaa, Alexandre; Brunner‐La Rocca, Hans‐Peter; Martens, Pieter; M. Testani, Jeffrey; Wilson Tang, W.H.; Orso, Francesco; Rossignol, Patrick; Metra, Marco; Filippatos, Gerasimos; Seferović, Petar; Ruschitzka, Frank; J.S. Coats, Andrew

doi:10.1002/ejhf.1369

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The Use of Diuretics in Heart Failure with Congestion — A Position Statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

Published in European Journal of Heart Failure • Jan 1, 2019

Authors:

Wilfried Müllens

Kevin Damman

Veli‐Pekka Harjola

Abstract

The vast majority of acute heart failure episodes are characterized by increasing symptoms and signs of congestion with volume overload. The goal of therapy in those patients is the relief of congestion through achieving a state of euvolaemia, mainly through the use of diuretic therapy. The appropri...

Subject

Medicine

Diuretic

Heart failure

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