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 language | English |
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Article number | 003180 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Circulation-Heart failure |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug-2016 |
Keywords
- cardiorenal syndrome
- chloride
- diuretics
- SODIUM RESTRICTION
- SENSING MECHANISM
- CHLORIDE
- FUROSEMIDE
- KINASES
- TRIAL