Patients

Understand your or your loved one’s fluid overload and the available treatment options.

Demand the best care and the most positive outcomes.

• The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology recommend that patients with fluid overload should not be discharged from the hospital until euvolemia (dry weight) is achieved.

• But only 50% of heart failure patients (the most common sufferers of fluid overload) achieve any fluid and weight reduction with standard drug-based treatment options and almost 40% are discharged from the hospital still with symptoms of fluid overload.

• Up to 30% of fluid overload patients suffer from a form of resistance to diuretics which prompts many to be prescribed higher and higher doses of the drugs.

• The most commonly used standard drug-based treatment option, diuretics, at high doses have been associated with increased mortality and morbidity.

For many, these facts may call into question the usual practice of just giving more and more of the diuretic drugs to try to get the fluid off.

Explore these pages and this website further to completely understand how Aquapheresis therapy with the Aquadex FlexFlow may help when diuretics fail.