Many diuretic drugs take advantage of this mechanism to treat medical conditions like high blood pressure.
Of 1,000 patients taking beta blockers and diuretic drugs during one year, 10 may have a heart attack.
Under such circumstances, a physician might have stopped the diuretic drug and prescribed potassium.
The volunteers were patients in whom the standard treatments, digitalis and a diuretic drug, did not control the heart failure.
Four years later, he demonstrated the effectiveness of a new diuretic drug, chlorothiazide, in reducing high blood pressure.
If caught early the condition can be treated by using diuretic drugs or through the use of surgery to correct any underlying defects.
The traditional treatment for heart failure patients with symptoms of fluid overload is administration of diuretic drugs.
It is a symptom of another disease or condition, or a side effect of diuretic drugs.
Many diuretic drugs take advantage of this mechanism to treat medical conditions like hypernatremia and hypertension.
Patients with heart failure and fluid overload are traditionally treated with diuretic drugs.