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Query: UMLS:C0011881 (diabetic nephropathy)
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In a 63-year-old woman with longstanding type I diabetes mellitus, CAD and chronic heart failure, a subacute myocardial infarction developed, together with decompensation of cardiac function and diabetes and concurrent pneumonia. Acute heart failure with acute renal failure on top of diabetic nephropathy, and interstitial pulmonary edema was initially treated with hemofiltration and catechol amines together with antibiotic and perfusor-regulated insulin therapy, and systemic heparinization. Subsequent chronic treatment with digitalis, acetyl salicylic acid, insulin and a combination of an ACE inhibitor and a loop diuretic resulted in an improvement of heart failure to NYHA functional class II where PTCA of coronary multi-vessel disease could be performed with low risk.
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PMID:[Heart failure after myocardial infarct in decompensated diabetes mellitus. Acute therapy with catecholamines--long-term therapy with ACE inhibitor-loop diuretic combination]. 937 33