Open AccessRein cardiaque: Historical Notes on Cardiorenal Syndrome
Author(s) -
Sepideh Zununi Vahed,
Mohammadreza Ardalan,
Claudio Ronco
Publication year - 2019
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 - 10.1159/000503222
Subject(s) - cardiorenal syndrome , medicine , intensive care medicine , heart failure
Cardiorenal syndrome describes an active inter-relationship between heart and renal malfunction. The notion of passive renal congestion because of heart dysfunction and the informative term “rein cardiaque” by the French pathologist Frédéric Justin Collet (1870–1966) that reiterates revolutionized physiological thinking based on autopsy findings will be briefly discussed here.