Two Cases of Severe Heart Failure in the Elderly Successfully Treated with Goreisan
- VernacularTitle:難治性高齢者心不全に対して五苓散追加投与が有効であった2症例
- Author:
Masahiro TAMANO
1
;
Shiro KATO
2
;
Asako OKAMURA
1
;
Tomofumi HOSHINO
3
;
Sho TAKAHASHI
2
Author Information
- Keywords: heart failure; aquaporin; tolvaptan; goreisan
- From:Kampo Medicine 2018;69(3):275-280
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: The number of elderly people with chronic heart failure is increasing ; they have acute exacerbations at a high rate due to mergers of infections and others. At that time, they received furosemide intravenous injection and tolvaptan oral medication as internal treatments. However, there are refractory patients (tolvaptan nonresponder) at a certain frequency. In these cases we experienced two cases in which goreisan were effective for untreatable congestive heart failure. Goreisan administration resulted in an increase in urine volume in both cases, marked improvements in symptoms, physiological findings and various laboratory findings. In addition, they continued taking these medicines after discharge. As a result, for about a year, they were never rehospitalized due to heart failure. It is conceivable that goreisan normalized the uneven distribution of water in organs and tissues, and reactivated the action of tolvaptan in the renal collecting duct. These results suggest that the combined use of goreisan will be useful for untreatable congestive heart failure.
