Does the amount of edema in patients affect the magnitude of response to a dose of a diuretic acting on the renal tubules?

MeSH terms

• Adult
• Aged
• Ascites / drug therapy
• Chlorothiazide / therapeutic use
• Diuresis / drug effects
• Diuretics / therapeutic use*
• Edema / drug therapy
• Edema / physiopathology*
• Female
• Glomerular Filtration Rate
• Heart Failure / drug therapy
• Humans
• Kidney Tubules / drug effects*
• Liver Cirrhosis / drug therapy
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Organomercury Compounds / therapeutic use
• Spironolactone / pharmacology
• Vasopressins / pharmacology