Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Outpatient Treatment of Worsening Heart Failure with Intravenous Diuretics: First Results from a Multicentre 2-Year Experience
Authors' conclusion
Outpatient treatment with intravenous diuretics of patients with WHF is a safe alternative strategy compared with the same treatment in hospitalized patients.
Study context
- Population
- Adults with worsening heart failure (HF) (all types: Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF), heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)), weight gain >2 kg, not responding to uptitrated oral diuretics, treated with IV loop diuretics at the outpatient department322 outpatient treatments
- Participants
- 259 adults
- Outcome
- HF rehospitalisation and all-cause mortality after outpatient IV diuretic treatment of worsening heart failure (WHF)
- Follow-up
- 30 days and 1 year
Methodological detailsmulticentre
- Multicentre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
30 days and 1 year
HF rehospitalisation at 30 days
30.5%
HF rehospitalisation at 1 year
53.3%
All-cause mortality at 30 days
5.8%
All-cause mortality at 1 year
26.3%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Safety
- Adverse events in 322 individual outpatient treatments
- 1
Original publication
Outpatient Treatment of Worsening Heart Failure with Intravenous Diuretics: First Results from a Multicentre 2-Year Experience. ESC Heart Fail. Published 14 November 2022. doi:10.
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