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01-06-2018 | What's New in Intensive Care
What’s new in cardiorenal syndrome?
Authors:
Michael Darmon, Miet Schetz
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 6/2018
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Excerpt
Cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) is a bidirectional disorder in which heart and kidney may induce or perpetuate disease in the other organ [
1,
2]. Five subtypes reflecting the primary dysfunction and its chronicity have been described. This “what’s new” paper will focus on CRS type 1 in which acute heart failure (AHF) (mostly in the setting of cardiogenic shock or acute decompensated heart failure) induces renal dysfunction and/or injury. CRS type 1 is common, may affect 25–33% of patients with AHF, and is associated with a grim prognosis [
2,
3]. …