Renal Venous Pattern: A New Parameter for Predicting Prognosis in Heart Failure Outpatients.

Agata PuzzovivoFrancesco MonitilloPietro GuidaMarta LeoneCaterina RizzoDario GrandeMarco Matteo CicconeMassimo Iacoviello

Published in: Journal of cardiovascular development and disease (2018)

Our findings demonstrate the independent and incremental role of Doppler venous patterns reflecting renal congestion in predicting HF progression among CHF patients, thus suggesting its possible utility in daily clinical practice to better characterize patients with cardio-renal syndrome.

Keyphrases

heart failure
end stage renal disease
clinical practice
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
physical activity
peritoneal dialysis
left ventricular
blood flow