Background: Intravenous (IV) loop-diuretics have been a key component in treating pulmonary edema since the nineteen sixties and has a Class 1 recommendation in the 2021 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for heart failure. Conversely, vasodilation was downgraded in the treatment of acute heart failure due to a lack of trials that compare vasodilation with loop-diuretics in a hyperacute clinical settin...

Summary: This phase I/II trial compares the effect of drugs that causes widening of blood vessels as a result of smooth muscle relaxation (vasodilator therapy) with isosorbide mononitrate, diltiazem or placebo to reduce vasotoxicity in patients with gastrointestinal cancer receiving fluoropyrimidine therapy. Some patients develop chest pain (possibly even a heart attack, a drop in heart function, or a rhyt...

Summary: Cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) is a common accompaniment of aging. Recent small subcortical (or lacunar) infarcts (i.e. symptomatic cSVD) and white matter hyperintensities are typical cSVD lesions on neuroimaging. cSVD causes about a quarter of ischaemic strokes and related with cognitive dysfunction. However, few studies are available so far to especially explore the treatment of cSVD. Endo...