Prednisone for Heart Failure Patients With Hyperuricemia
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2010-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Hyperuricemia is a very common finding in patients with heart failure. It is usually related
to diuretic use and deteriorated renal function. The recently evidence showed that uric acid
(UA) lowering therapy may improve clinical status in symptomatic heart failure patients with
hyperuricemia. In their clinical practice, the investigators found that glucocorticoids could
dramatically lower UA while improving renal function. Thus the investigators design this
randomized head to head study to test our hypothesis that prednisone have the same efficacy
to allopurinol on lowering UA and could improve renal function at the same time.