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Diuretic Resistance—A Key to Identifying Clinically Significant Worsening Renal Function in Heart Failure?
Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Vol. 97Issue 9p1598–1600Published in issue: September, 2022
- Nicholas Wettersten
- Stephen Duff
- Patrick T. Murray
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Worsening renal function (WRF) in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure (AHF) presents a frequent clinical dilemma that is compounded by the inconsistent results of studies seeking to determine whether WRF in AHF is associated with worse clinical outcomes, such as death or readmission. More recent studies suggest that when serum creatinine concentration rises from a hemodynamic process such as appropriate blood pressure lowering or decongestion, WRF is no longer associated with adverse outcomes.