Key result
Diuretics relieve CHF symptoms but risk electrolyte abnormalities, worsening renal function, and diuretic resistance.
Why the study?
The appropriate use of diuretics in congestive heart failure remains challenging due to complications such as electrolyte abnormalities, worsening renal function, and diuretic resistance.
This review highlights the essential role of diuretics in relieving congestive symptoms in heart failure while emphasizing the need to manage complications like electrolyte abnormalities and diuretic resistance.
Diuretics require vigilant monitoring for electrolyte and renal complications in HF; confirms known limitations while leaving resistance management open.
In heart failure, fluid overload is a major pathological mechanism leading to vascular congestion, pulmonary congestion and elevated jugular venous pressures. Diuretics play a significant role in the management of patients with congestive heart failure. It is used to relieve the congestive symptoms of heart failure. However, the appropriate use of diuretics remains challenging due to various complications like electrolyte abnormalities, worsening renal function and diuretic resistance. This has prompted towards the search of safer and effective alternatives. This review evaluates the use of diuretics in congestive heart failure and discusses the complications of different types of diuretics, which is essential for successful management of congestion in patients with heart failure and hence to optimise the outcome for the patients.
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Kennelly et al. (2021) conducted a review in Congestive heart failure. Diuretics was evaluated. Diuretic therapy in congestive heart failure relieves congestive symptoms but is complicated by electrolyte abnormalities, worsening renal function, and diuretic resistance.
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