All the patients completed the first two parts of the study (furosemide then HCTZ or HCTZ then furosemide), but 7 patients had to stop the combined regimen because of low BP and prerenal acute renal failure.
Michael Robert Lawrence (1962â1986) died suddenly from ventricular fibrillation resulting from an undiagnosed heart condition at the age of 23. Michael was an assistant editor for a television show at the time of his death and was apparently healthy despite a previous diagnosis of slight arrhythmia.
Michael Reeves died at the age of 25, having only made three films, including the blazing Witchfinder General. But what might he have achieved had he lived? In May 1968, as the students of Paris dodged rubber bullets and inhaled tear gas, Alan Bennett came out of a cinema in London feeling dirty.