KROK 1 2007 – Question 194 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient with chronic cardiac insufficiency has been treated with cardiotonic drugs and a thiazide diuretic, but in spite of it there are still edemata and risk of ascites. What medication should be prescribed to amplify diuretic effect of the applied drugs?
- A. Furosemide
- B. Manitole
- C. Amyloride
- D. Spironolactone
- E. Clopamide
Hint
Heart failure switches on the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axis; think of a potassium-sparing diuretic that blocks that hormone's action and so helps against ascites.
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