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SUBMITTER: Mentz RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659502 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mentz Robert J RJ Kjeldsen Keld K Rossi Gian Paolo GP Voors Adriaan A AA Cleland John G F JG Anker Stefan D SD Gheorghiade Mihai M Fiuzat Mona M Rossignol Patrick P Zannad Faiez F Pitt Bertram B O'Connor Christopher C Felker G Michael GM
European journal of heart failure 20140305 5
Congestion is a major reason for hospitalization in acute heart failure (HF). Therapeutic strategies to manage congestion include diuretics, vasodilators, ultrafiltration, vasopressin antagonists, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, and potentially also novel therapies such as gut sequesterants and serelaxin. Uncertainty exists with respect to the appropriate decongestion strategy for an individual patient. In this review, we summarize the benefit and risk profiles for these decongestion str ...[more]