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2. Furosemide - Wikipedia

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   Furosemide is also used in horses for pulmonary edema, congestive heart failure (in combination with other drugs), and allergic reactions. Although it increases circulation to the kidneys, it does not help kidney function and is not recommended for kidney disease. [54]

3. Loop diuretic - Wikipedia

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   However, for torsemide and bumetanide, their oral bioavailability is consistently higher than 90%. Torsemide has a longer half life in heart failure patients (6 hours) than furosemide (2.7 hours). A 40 mg dose of furosemide is clinically equivalent to a 20 mg dose of torsemide and to a 1 mg dose of bumetanide. [6]

4. Potassium-sparing diuretic - Wikipedia

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   Potassium-sparing diuretics or antikaliuretics [1] refer to drugs that cause diuresis without causing potassium loss in the urine. [2] They are typically used as an adjunct in management of hypertension, cirrhosis, and congestive heart failure. [3] The steroidal aldosterone antagonists can also be used for treatment of primary hyperaldosteronism.

5. What Are Treatments for Heart Failure? - AOL

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   In simplest terms, heart failure, or congestive heart failure, occurs when the heart can’t pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. There are four stages of heart failure. People in this ...

6. These Are the 4 Stages of Heart Failure - AOL

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   Stage A Defined as: At high risk for heart failure but without structural heart disease (defects in the heart from aging, injury, infection, or heart defect at birth), or symptoms of heart failure.

7. Diuretic - Wikipedia

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   In medicine, diuretics are used to treat heart failure, liver cirrhosis, hypertension, influenza, water poisoning, and certain kidney diseases.Some diuretics, such as acetazolamide, help to make the urine more alkaline, and are helpful in increasing excretion of substances such as aspirin in cases of overdose or poisoning.