Treatment of congestive heart failure in ambulatory patients with salyrgan-theophylline administered orally.

IN ANY outpatient cardiac clinic are to be found considerable numbers of patients who must report to the hospital for injections of mercurial diuretics as often as several times each week. The present study was motivated by a desire to relieve many of these people of this burden. The patients in this study were entirely unselected except that they all gave evidence of severe congestive failure requiring mercurial diuretics for maintenance. Most had been receiving mercurial injections once or twice a week. Others had needed one only every four to six weeks. At the other end of the scale was . . .