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2. Furosemide - Wikipedia

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   Furosemide, sold under the brand name Lasix among others, is a loop diuretic medication used to treat edema due to heart failure, liver scarring, or kidney disease. [4] Furosemide may also be used for the treatment of high blood pressure. [4] It can be taken intravenously or orally. [4]

3. Loop diuretic - Wikipedia

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   Loop diuretics may also precipitate kidney failure in patients concurrently taking an NSAID and an ACE inhibitor—the so-called "triple whammy" effect. [19] Because furosemide, torsemide and bumetanide are technically sulfa drugs, there is a theoretical risk that patients sensitive to sulfonamides may be sensitive to these loop diuretics. This ...

4. Nephrotoxicity - Wikipedia

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   Nephrotoxicity is toxicity in the kidneys. It is a poisonous effect of some substances, both toxic chemicals and medications, on kidney function. [1] There are various forms, [2] and some drugs may affect kidney function in more than one way. Nephrotoxins are substances displaying nephrotoxicity.

5. Diuretic - Wikipedia

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   In medicine, diuretics are used to treat heart failure, liver cirrhosis, hypertension, influenza, water poisoning, and certain kidney diseases.Some diuretics, such as acetazolamide, help to make the urine more alkaline, and are helpful in increasing excretion of substances such as aspirin in cases of overdose or poisoning.

6. What is Hypertension? Everything You Need to Know - AOL

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   Kidney disease. Heart disease. They may also do a physical exam and ask about your symptoms, medical history, and family history. ... Diuretics. These medications help reduce how much water and ...

7. Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion

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   This may be true hypovolemia, as a result of dehydration with fluid losses replaced by free water. It can also be perceived hypovolemia, as in the conditions of congestive heart failure (CHF) and cirrhosis in which the kidneys perceive a lack of intravascular volume. The hyponatremia caused by appropriate ADH release (from the kidneys ...

8. This is the best time of day to take vitamin D supplements ...

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   “Vitamin D can interact with statins, steroids and thiazide diuretics,” Zumpano says. ... "In extreme cases, vitamin D toxicity can cause kidney failure, cardiac arrhythmias and even death ...

9. Ototoxic medication - Wikipedia

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   Loop diuretics is a major class of diuretic drugs indicated for oedema due to heart failure, liver disease and kidney disease. It is also used for treating hypertension. [26] Common examples include furosemide, bumetanide and ethacrynic acid. Loop diuretics act on the thick ascending limb of the loop of Henle in the kidney nephrons.