Open AccessPrevalence and Clinical Features of Patients with the Cardiorenal Syndrome Admitted to an Internal Medicine Ward
Author(s) -
Antonietta Gigante,
Marta Liberatori,
Maria Ludovica Gasperini,
Liborio Sardo,
Francesca Di Mario,
Barbara Dorelli,
Biagio Barbano,
Edoardo Rosato,
Filippo Rossi Fanelli,
Antonio Amoroso
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
cardiorenal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1664-3828
pISSN - 1664-5502
DOI - 10.1159/000362566
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , pneumonia , retrospective cohort study , cohort , cardiorenal syndrome , community acquired pneumonia , gastroenterology
Many patients admitted to a Department of Internal Medicine have different degrees of heart and kidney dysfunction. Mortality, morbidity and cost of care greatly increase when cardiac and renal diseases coexist.