Chiara Barisione, Silvano Garibaldi, Claudio Brunelli, Manrico Balbi, Paolo Spallarossa, Marco Canepa, Pietro Ameri, Francesca Viazzi, Daniela Verzola, Alessandra Lorenzoni, Riccardo Baldassini, Domenico Palombo, Bianca Pane, Giovanni Spinella, Giorgio Ghigliotti
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), cardiac damage (CD) and the combination of the two are associated with increased morbidity and death in patients admitted to vascular surgery units. We assessed the prevalence of cardiac and renal damage and cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) in 563 patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) who underwent cardiac screening before either an endovascular procedure (EVAR) or open surgery (OS) for aneurysm repair. CD was defined by ≥stage B as per the ACC/AHA classification of congestive heart failure (CHF), while CKD was defined by estimated GFR <60 mL/min/1...
March 2016: Internal and Emergency Medicine