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View Post: Cirrhosis – Prevention And Treatment
31 Oct 2009
(Diuretics may be prescribed for this purpose as well.) • Antibiotics may be prescribed if excess, esophageal varices, fluid retained in the abdomen has become infected. • Cholestyramine may be prescribed to relieve severe itching by ...
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View Post: Cardiology Medical News about Diuretics
28 Oct 2009
Unfortunately, in other edematous states such as cirrhosis, pulmonary hypertension, and kidney disease, there was no clear advantage of torsemide over furosemide. Finally, little evidence exists that suggest bumetanide is better than ...
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View Post: Cirrhosis – Prevention And Treatment « hepaticencephalopathy.net
24 Oct 2009
(diuretics may be prescribed, hepatic encephalopathy, for this purpose also.) Antibiotics can be excess fluid held as prescribed in the stomach is infected. Cholestyramine can, hepatic encephalopathy, be used to relieve severe itching ...
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View Post: A Comprehensive Review of the Loop Diuretics: Should Furosemide Be ...
22 Oct 2009 by admin  
In 2 of 3 studies of patients with cirrhosis, torsemide increased natriuresis and total volume diuresed compared with furosemide in patients with cirrhosis; however, no significant difference between the agents with respect to plasma ...
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View Post: Coffee and Tea Are Good for Us? Yes! (First in a Series)
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View Post: DB's Medical Rants » Blog Archive » Secondary prevention in cirrhosis
3 Feb 2008 by rcentor  
If the urine sodium is now greater than the urine potassium, I can start a loop diuretic (usually furosemide 40 mg.) If not, I will double the spironolactone dose to 200 mg. In cirrhosis one can go as high as 450 mg daily. ...
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View Post: Sodium Retention in Heart Failure and Cirrhosis: Potential Role of ...
14 Jul 2009 by Bansal, S., Lindenfeld, J., Schrier, RW  
... contributes to resistance to loop diuretics. Therefore, the use of high doses of aldosterone antagonist (spironolactone up to 400 mg/day) is the main therapy to produce a negative sodium balance in cirrhotic patients with ascites. ...
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View Post: Chronic Liver Disease
28 Oct 2009 by beck3365  
Potassium Sparing Diuretics: spironolactone (Aldactone) - This drug is used for CHF and cirrhosis to block the production of aldosterone, which is often oversecreted in patients with cirrhosis. Aldosterone is a hormone that tells the ...
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View Post: ISPUB - Evaluation of Diur-08 A Polyherbal Formulation for ...
18 Jul 2009
Drug-induced diuresis is beneficial in many life-threatening disease conditions such as congestive heart failure, nephritic syndrome, cirrhosis, renal failure, hypertension, and pregnancy toxaemia. 1 Most diuretic drugs have the adverse ...
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