Evaluation of diuretic efficiency of intravenous furosemide in patients with advanced heart failure in a heart failure clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Diuretic efficiency (DE) is an independent predictor of all-cause mortality in acute heart failure (HF) at long-term follow-up. The performance of DE in advanced HF and the outpatient scenario is unclear.

Methods

Survival function analysis on a retrospective cohort of patients with advanced HF followed at the outpatient clinic of Hospital Universitario San Ignacio (Bogotá, Colombia) between 2017 and 2021. DE was calculated as the average of total diuresis in milliliters divided by the dose of IV furosemide in milligrams for each 6-h session, considering all the sessions in which the patient received levosimendan and IV furosemide. We stratified DE in high or low using the median value of the cohort as the cutoff value. The primary outcome was a composite of all-

SUBMITTER: Herrera-Leano N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10331187 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature