Hypochloremia and Diuretic Resistance in Heart Failure: Mechanistic Insights

Jennifer S. Hanberg, Veena Rao, Jozine M. ter Maaten, Olga Laur, Meredith A. Brisco, F. Perry Wilson, Justin L. Grodin, Mahlet Assefa, J. Samuel Broughton, Noah J. Planavsky, Tariq Ahmad, Lavanya Bellumkonda, W. H. Wilson Tang, Chirag R. Parikh, Jeffrey M. Testani*

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    Abstract

    Background-Recent epidemiological studies have implicated chloride, rather than sodium, as the driver of poor survival previously attributed to hyponatremia in heart failure. Accumulating basic science evidence has identified chloride as a critical factor in renal salt sensing. Our goal was to probe the physiology bridging this basic and epidemiological literature.

    Methods and Results-Two heart failure cohorts were included: (1) observational: patients receiving loop diuretics at the Yale Transitional Care Center (N=162) and (2) interventional pilot: stable outpatients receiving >= 80 mg furosemide equivalents were studied before and after 3 days of 115 mmol/d supplemental lysine chloride (N=10). At the Yale Transitional Care Center, 31.5% of patients had hypochloremia (chloride

    Conclusions-Hypochloremia is associated with neurohormonal activation and diuretic resistance with chloride depletion as a candidate mechanism. Sodium-free chloride supplementation was associated with increases in serum chloride and changes in several cardiorenal parameters.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number003180
    Number of pages12
    JournalCirculation-Heart failure
    Volume9
    Issue number8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug-2016

    Keywords

    • cardiorenal syndrome
    • chloride
    • diuretics
    • SODIUM RESTRICTION
    • SENSING MECHANISM
    • CHLORIDE
    • FUROSEMIDE
    • KINASES
    • TRIAL

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