The Acute Cardiorenal Syndrome: Burden and Mechanisms of Disease

Current Heart Failure Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 453-462

  Nijst, Petra ^a,b   Mullens, Wilfried ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cardiorenal syndrome; Central venous pressure; Congestion; Heart failure; Intraabdominal pressure; Renal blood flow; Renal dysfunction; Renal perfusion; Worsening renal function

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME; HEART OUTPUT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRA-ABDOMINAL HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84933522405     PISSN: 15469530     EISSN: 15469549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11897-014-0218-4     Document Type: Review

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