Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activation during decongestion in acute heart failure: Friend or foe?

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 108-111

  Verbrugge, Frederik H ^a,b   Tang, W H Wilson ^c   Mullens, Wilfried ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Aldosterone; Diuretics; Renin; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANGIOTENSIN; ANGIOTENSIN II; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; RENIN;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ALDOSTERONE RELEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIURETIC THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; FLUID RETENTION; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLOOD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; MALE;

ALDOSTERONE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; RENIN; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM;

EID: 84959935661     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.10.005     Document Type: Editorial

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