Journal of cardiac failure
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Intravenous salt supplementation with low-dose furosemide for treatment of acute decompensated heart failure.
Theoretically, salt supplementation should promote diuresis through increasing the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) during treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) even with low-dose furosemide; however, there is little evidence to support this idea. ⋯ Salt supplementation rather than salt restriction evoked favorable diuresis through increasing GFR. The findings support an efficacious novel approach of the treatment of ADHF.