Diuretic withdrawal

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Diuretic withdrawal likely safe for stable outpatients with mild heart failure

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

By Marilynn Larkin

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Discontinuing furosemide may be safe for outpatients with stable heart failure and no fluid retention, researchers say.

"Patients have many pills to take for their heart failure and for comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney disease," Dr. Luis Rohde of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Puerto Alegre, Brazil, told Reuters Health. "Withdrawing one drug when it is no longer necessary should make it easier to take the ones that are needed."

"In particular, patients don't like using diuretics because they feel they have to stay at home to use the bathroom and they might get side effects like cramps," he said by email. "Patients would welcome being able to stop this medication."/.../