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ReviewCureus2020

Pharmacological and Non-pharmacological Strategies for Volume Overload in Acute Decompensated Congestive Heart Failure: A Review Article.

Meer R Zafar, Timothy W Miller, Syed Farrukh Mustafa, Nawfal Al-Khafaji

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Review in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. [The ROSE concept: modern fluid management in intensive care medicine].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2024
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Meer R ZafarInternal Medicine, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Buffalo, USA.
Timothy W MillerInternal Medicine, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, USA.
Syed Farrukh MustafaInternal Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, USA.
Nawfal Al-KhafajiCardiology, Trinity Medical Cardiology, Buffalo, USA.
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak · USJacobs Institute · USSisters of Charity Hospital · USTrinity Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The epithet of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is volume overload. ADHF is associated with a rising number of hospital admission for volume overload. Medication non-compliance, excessive salt intake, comorbidities, and/or disease progression can attribute to volume overload. Heart failure (HF) therapy has innovated during the past few decades, but diuretics have been the mainstay of treatment. Diuretics are vital even though these drugs stimulate the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) and lead to adaptive responses like diuretic resistance, neurohormonal activation, and worsening renal function that may be inimical. There has been a thriving interest in cutting-edge strategies to manage volume overload in ADHF. The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and the American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines advocate pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to treat volume overload in ADHF patients. Ultrafiltration (UF) is, therefore, an emerging stand-in therapy of interest for treating volume overload in ADHF patients. This review article epitomizes available clinical data on the use of diuretics and UF in ADHF patients and identifies challenges for each approach.

Indexed as

acute decompensated heart failurediuretic resistancediureticsheart failurerenin-angiotensin-aldosterone systemultrafiltrationvolume overload

Identifiers

PMID32190502
PMCPMC7067518
OpenAlexW3006418600

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