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Q1 What is meant by the term cardiorenal failure?
Originally this was a term used to describe declining renal function in patients with advanced heart failure. Subsequently it was defined as a ‘pathophysiological disorder in which acute or chronic dysfunction of one organ may induce acute or chronic dysfunction in the other’. From a clinical point of view cardiorenal failure is best thought of as any disorder in which cardiac and renal dysfunction coexist.
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Ronco C, et al. Cardio-renal syndromes: report from the consensus conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative. Eur Heart J. 2010;31:703–11.
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Findlay, M., Isles, C. (2015). Cardiorenal Failure. In: Clinical Companion in Nephrology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14868-7_12
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