A HIGH FLUID INTAKE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF EDEMA, ESPECIALLY CARDIAC EDEMA
Authors: F. R. SCHEMM
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1942)

Article1 December 1942A HIGH FLUID INTAKE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF EDEMA, ESPECIALLY CARDIAC EDEMAI. THE DETAILS AND BASIS OF THE RÉGIME*F. R. SCHEMM, M.D., F.A.C.P.F. R. SCHEMM, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-17-6-952 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThis paper presents the details of a régime which, in the past eight years, has been used in approximately 600 separate periods of treatment carried out on a series of about 400 cases of advanced disease, 96 per cent of which were cases of cardiovascular-renal disease. In this series there were about 375 cases, or 94 per cent, with gross heart disease, of which over 200 showed gross edema.Only a few of the reasons which led to a trial of this régime can be mentioned here. 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SCHEMM, M.D., F.A.C.P.Affiliations: Great Falls, Montana*Read at the St. Paul meeting of the American College of Physicians April 22, 1942.From the Medical Department of the Great Falls Clinic, Great Falls, Montana.†From 1930 to 1933 while instructor in internal medicine in Ann Arbor where Newburgh's renal-function and water-balance work was being applied clinically to nephritis and being applied to surgical problems by Coller and Maddock.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDIURETICS AND DIURESISDie Verteilung von Natrium und ChloridKaliumverteilungTreatment of the Patient With Refractory Heart FailurePRESENT CONCEPTS OF THE MECHANISM OF URINE FORMATION AND OF DIURETIC ACTION*Water and Electrolyte Metabolism in Congestive Heart FailureOsmolarity Disorders of the Body FluidsPathophysiologie der HerzinsuffizienzTherapie der HerzinsuffizienzManaging Unmanageable EdemaThe management of congestive heart failure with a free salt intakeThe alkali metal ions in the organismThe pathogenesis and treatment of hyponatremia in congestive heart failureApplication of Homeostatic Principles to the Management of Nephrotic PatientsControl of body fluid volumeCorticotropin (ACTH) in Heart Disease: Its Paradoxical Effect on Sodium Excretion in Resistant Congestive FailureErnährungstherapieErnährungstherapieINTAKE AND OUTPUT OF WATER IN THE CONTROL OF BODY WATER CONTENTDie Krankheiten der Leber und der GallenwegeObservations of Patients on Low-Sodium Diets1Electrolyte and Fluid Disturbances in Congestive Heart FailureWater and Electrolyte Balance in DiseaseTypes and Treatment of Nephritis in ChildrenThe Importance of Diet as a Therapeutic Measure in Cardiovascular Renal DiseaseSalt-Depletion Syndrome as a Complication in the Treatment of Cardiorenal DiseaseA consideration of the mechanism of congestive heart failureToleration of a high water intake by patients with high-grade mitral stenosis in the last trimester of pregnancyX A Concept of Allergy as Autonomic Dysfunction Suggested as an Improved Working HypothesisFurther Comparative Studies on Ascites in Liver and Heart DiseaseVALUE OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHY IN CLINICAL NEUROLOGYCARDIAC FAILUREStudies on Congestive Circulatory FailurePathogenesis and Treatment of Salt and Water Retention in Congestive FailureWater Balance in Heart and Kidney Disease as Related to Edema and OliguriaGREAT REDUCTION IN HEART SIZE ATTENDING THE CLEARING OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN A MAN WITH HYPERTENSIVE AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE*JAMES H. 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