Renin-Angiotensin-aldosterone system activation during decongestion in acute heart failure: friend or foe?

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¹ Department of Cardiology, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium; Doctoral School for Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Cardiology, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium; Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Electronic address: wilfried.mullens@zol.be.

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Frederik H Verbrugge et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2015 Feb.

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. 2015 Feb;3(2):108-11.

doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2014.10.005. Epub 2014 Oct 31.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium; Doctoral School for Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Cardiology, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Genk, Belgium; Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Electronic address: wilfried.mullens@zol.be.

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Keywords: acute heart failure; aldosterone; diuretics; renin; ultrafiltration.

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Decongestion strategies and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activation in acute heart failure.
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