Heart failure and kidney dysfunction: Epidemiology, mechanisms and management

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 610-623

  Schefold, Joerg C ^a   Filippatos, Gerasimos ^b   Hasenfuss, Gerd ^c   Anker, Stefan D ^c   Von Haehling, Stephan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; CARDIORENAL SYNDROME; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET THERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISORDERS OF ACID BASE BALANCE; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MINERAL DEFICIENCY; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT INDICATION; ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ANIMAL; CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; KIDNEY; PHYSIOLOGY; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ANIMALS; CARDIO-RENAL SYNDROME; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

EID: 84984605182     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2016.113     Document Type: Article

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