Metabolic Alkalosis in Heart Failure

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patients whose main reason for admission is not decompensated HF. Those patients who are admitted for another reason and who also have decompensated HF secondarily cannot be included
• •Patients who do not strictly meet the diagnostic criteria for HF of the European HF Guidelines.
• •Patients for whom analytical values are not available in relation to acid-base balance at the time of admission
• •Patients with a pathological history that can clearly justify metabolic alkalosis, such as primary or secondary hyperaldosterism
• •Patients who were taking sodium bicarbonate prior to admission
• •Patients with factors present at admission that may justify the presence of metabolis alkalosis: vomiting, diarrea, etc.
• •Patients who do not give their consent to participate in the study