Authors:Adel E. Berbari, Giuseppe Mancia,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: treatment, risk, mechanisms, syndrome, cardiorenal
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-09-10
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 884701462X
ISBN-13: 9788847014626

Chronic kidney disease with a worldwide prevalence of 10% in the general population is emerging as a major public health priority. Renal dysfunction is associated with a high risk for cardiovascular complications. The relationship between renal insufficiency and cardiovascular disease, termed the cardiorenal syndrome exists whether impairment of renal function is a consequence of primary renal parenchymal disease or primary heart disease. Several pathophysiologic mechanisms have been postulated to explain the relationship between renal dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. Recent studies i

Authors:Claudio Ronco, Carlo Crepaldi, Dinna N. Cruz,
Publisher: S Karger Pu
Keywords: contributions, nephrology, care, critical, syndromes, cardiorenal
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3805594720
ISBN-13: 9783805594721

Critical care nephrology is an emerging multidisciplinary science in which the competences of different specialists are merged to provide a unified diagnostic and therapeutic approach to the critically ill patient. The volume at hand places great emphasis on cardiorenal syndromes and the multidisciplinary collaboration between cardiology and nephrology. Several contributions describe the cardiorenal syndrome in its different varieties and subtypes and report the results from the most recent Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative Consensus Conference, as well as proposing new diagnostic approaches b