Comparison of Long- and Short-acting Diuretics in Congestive Heart Failure

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare therapeutic effects of furosemide, a short-acting loop diuretic, and azosemide, a long-acting one, in patients with heart failure, and to test our hypothesis that long-acting diuretics are superior to short-acting types in heart failure.

Timeline

Start

2006-06

Primary completion

2010-08

Completion

2010-08

Publications

• Background Yoshida J, Yamamoto K, Mano T, Sakata Y, Nishio M, Ohtani T, Hori M, Miwa T, Masuyama T. Different effects of long- and short-acting loop diuretics on survival rate in Dahl high-salt heart failure model rats. Cardiovasc Res. 2005 Oct 1;68(1):118-27. doi: 10.1016/j.cardiores.2005.05.023.
• Background J-MELODIC Program Committee. Rationale and design of a randomized trial to assess the effects of diuretics in heart failure: Japanese Multicenter Evaluation of Long- vs Short-Acting Diuretics in Congestive Heart Failure (J-MELODIC). Circ J. 2007 Jul;71(7):1137-40. doi: 10.1253/circj.71.1137.
• Results Masuyama T, Tsujino T, Origasa H, Yamamoto K, Akasaka T, Hirano Y, Ohte N, Daimon T, Nakatani S, Ito H. Superiority of long-acting to short-acting loop diuretics in the treatment of congestive heart failure. Circ J. 2012;76(4):833-42. doi: 10.1253/circj.cj-11-1500.

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