Hey, all, welcome back to the real-life pharmacology podcast.

I'm your host pharmacist, Eric Christensen.

Thank you so much for listening today.

Today, I'm going to cover some heart failure medications.

Now, previously in the hypertension section and obviously on previous podcast, I've covered

beta blockers and industrial antagonists a little bit.

So go ahead and search the archives if you want a little bit deeper dive into those.

I'm going to focus on loop diuretics, Arnie, and SGLT2 inhibitors a little bit here.

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All right, so heart failure medications.

So let's talk about loop diureetics first.

These medications are a mainstay in practice to essentially remove fluid.

Mechanistically, loop diuretics block sodium potassium chloride transport in the ascending loop of Henley.

So being in the loop of Henley in the kidney, that's where the name

Loop Diuretic comes from. And this yields, you know, the most powerful diuretic effect of

kind of any other standard medications that we utilize. It's typically considered much more

powerful than thiaside diuretics,

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