Cardio-renal anemia syndrome Review article

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Bartosz Puchalski

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Interaction among chronic heart failure, chronic kidney disease and anemia, forms a vicious cycle, termed as the cardio-renal anemia syndrome. This interaction among these three conditions causes deterioration of the cardiac and renal function and increases anemia. Each of the three situations can cause or be caused by the others. Anemia increases remarkably the risk of death. Patients under erythropoietin therapy experience significant improvement in terms of quality of life, overall survival as well as a decrease of left ventricular hypertrophy, increase of left ventricular ejection fraction.

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Puchalski, B. (2011). Cardio-renal anemia syndrome. Medycyna Faktow (J EBM), 4(2(11), 52-56. Retrieved from https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/jebm/article/view/2535
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