Heart failure patients with elevated creatinine can be treated by general treatment, oral hydrochlorothiazide, sodium nitroprusside metoprolol and other drugs, and secondly, surgery can also be used to eliminate the disease.
1. General treatment: heart failure patients with elevated creatinine, first of all, should correctly understand the disease, discharge bad emotions. Secondly, closely monitor weight changes and control sodium intake. In addition, exercise must be in moderation, avoiding intense exercise.
2. Drug therapy: usually need to follow the doctor’s instructions, take captopril, enalapril and other diuretics to reduce the burden on the heart. At the same time with the use of metoprolol, sodium nitroprusside to dilate blood vessels, relieve the adverse symptoms, to avoid creatinine continued to rise.
3. Surgical treatment: elevated creatinine in patients with heart failure is mainly due to the decline in the ejection capacity of the heart, resulting in damage to the kidneys due to insufficient function. Therefore, if medication fails to improve cardiac function, surgery can be considered to solve the problem. Commonly, there are cardiac resynchronization therapy, implantable cardioverter defibrillator and so on.
To summarize, many patients with heart failure have elevated creatinine and should seek medical attention as soon as possible and follow the doctor’s instructions.