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Diuretic therapy in heart failure - Current approaches
No full textThe use of diuretics is common in patients with heart failure (HF), to relieve the congestive symptoms of HF. Although they are widely used, there are limited data on their ability to modulate HF-related morbidity and mortality. Diuretic efficacy may be limited by adverse neurohormonal activation and by 'congestion-like' symptoms. Diuretics are an extremely useful and varied class of agent for the management of hypervolaemic states. This review summarises the basic features of diuretics, including their mechanism of action, indications and adverse effects in heart failure
Inside the “Razor Effect”: Lessons From Optical Coherence Tomography—What Does Angiography Hide?
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The "balloon-assisted tracking" technique to preserve radial artery access during percutaneous coronary intervention
No full textTransradial access for cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention is recommended by international guidelines to reduce vascular complications. Unfortunately, some factors such as female sex, shorter body surface area and older age, were found to be independent predictors of transradial cardiac catheterization failure. The balloon-assisted tracking technique is a smart trick to avoid crossover from radial to femoral access in case of spasm, tortuosity, or stenosis
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