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. 2020 Jun;17(6):359-364.
doi: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2020.06.009.

Increased mortality in elderly heart failure patients receiving infusion of furosemide compared to elderly heart failure patients receiving bolus injection

Rana Sager  1 , Isak Lindstedt  2 , Lars Edvinsson  1   2 , Marie-Louise Edvinsson  1   2
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Increased mortality in elderly heart failure patients receiving infusion of furosemide compared to elderly heart failure patients receiving bolus injection

Rana Sager et al. J Geriatr Cardiol. 2020 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: Furosemide; Heart failure; Infusion; Injection; Mortality.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Mortality in heart failure patients (Bolus injection vs. Infusion of furosemide).
Eight out of twenty patients in the infusion group were dead three months after discharge from the hospital, while two out of twenty patients in the bolus group were dead after three months. The difference between the two groups was significant, P = 0.03.
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