The indications and need for diuretics in pregnancy
Dattino, R.; Niccoli, V.; Dattino, M.; Pezzali, E.; D'Anna, A.
La Clinica Terapeutica 141(10): 269-272
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-9074 PMID: 1468189 Document Number: 401537
The authors take into consideration specific cases of pregnancy with remarkable oedema caused by cardiac insufficiency, gestosis, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. They emphasize that in these conditions and in other similar ones use of diuretics cannot be precluded. They report the case of a pregnant woman with severe cardiac insufficiency and considerable oedema observed at the Obstetric Clinical of Rome University. Thanks to diuretic therapy, the pregnancy could be followed through to full term.