KROK 1 2009 – Question 135 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
In spite of treatment with cardiotonics and thiazide diuretic a patient suffering from chronic cardiac failure still presents with edemata and faces a risk of ascites. What medication should be administered in order to increase the diuretic effect of the above mentioned drugs?
- A. Clopamide
- B. Spironolactone
- C. Manithol
- D. Furosemide
- E. Amiloride
Hint
Consider which hormonal mechanism keeps sodium and water retained in chronic heart failure despite a thiazide, and which drug class would interrupt it.
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