The cardiorenal syndrome in heart failure: Cardiac? renal? syndrome?

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 355-366

  Triposkiadis, Filippos ^a   Starling, Randall C ^b   Boudoulas, Harisios ^c   Giamouzis, Gregory ^a   Butler, Javed J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiorenal syndrome; Heart failure; Noncardiac morbidities; Worsening renal function

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGE; ANEMIA; CARDIORENAL SYNDROME; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MYOPATHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MYOPATHY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING;

CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; MORBIDITY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84862562144     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: 15737322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-011-9291-x     Document Type: Review

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