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.
In 1970, Lawrence and his wife, the painter Gwendolyn Knight, moved to Seattle where he taught art at the University of Washington. He died on June 9, 2000 in Seattle, WA at the age of 82. Contemporary Art, Drawings and Works on Paper, Impressionist and Modern Art.