Reduced Cardiac Index Is Not the Dominant Driver of Renal Dysfunction in Heart Failure
Hanberg JS, Sury K, Wilson FP, Brisco MA, Ahmad T, Maaten J, Broughton JS, Assefa M, Tang WH, Parikh CR, Testani JM. Reduced Cardiac Index Is Not the Dominant Driver of Renal Dysfunction in Heart Failure. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2016, 67: 2199-2208. PMID: 27173030, PMCID: PMC4867078, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.02.058.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPulmonary artery catheterizationBlood urea nitrogenCardiac indexRenal functionHeart failureRenal dysfunctionGood renal functionReduced cardiac indexHigher cardiac indexGlomerular filtration rateSignificant inverse correlationMultiple subgroupsMulticenter populationWorse eGFRHF patientsCreatinine ratioArtery catheterizationPatient subgroupsFiltration rateSerial assessmentLinear mixed modelingESCAPE trialPatientsUrea nitrogenDysfunction