Blood urea nitrogen to creatinine ratio is associated with congestion and mortality in heart failure patients with renal dysfunction

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 965-972

  Parrinello, Gaspare ^a   Torres, Daniele ^a   Testani, Jeffrey M ^b   Almasio, Piero Luigi ^a   Bellanca, Michele ^a   Pizzo, Giuseppina ^a   Cuttitta, Francesco ^a   Pinto, Antonio ^a   Butler, Javed ^c   Paterna, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collapse index; Congestion; Heart failure; Inferior vena cava; Outpatients; Renal dysfunction

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CREATININE;

AGED; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; ITALY; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; CREATININE; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; ITALY; MALE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84947492857     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-015-1261-1     Document Type: Article

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