Case ReportOpen Access

Cardiogenic Shock Evolving into Acute Kidney Injury: the Importance of Early Treatment

Volume 4 - Issue 2

Ana Paula Romagnioli Mattos, Carlos Eduardo Cardoso*, Aparecida Carmem de Oliveira, Alexandre Mitsuo Mituiassu, Marco Orsini, Marcos RG de Freitas, Eduardo Tavares Lima Trajano and Marco Aurélio dos Santos Silva

Author Information Open or Close
- Professional Master’s Program Applied in Health Sciences and Medical Graduation Course of Severino Sombra University for Vassouras University, Brazil
*Corresponding author: Carlos Eduardo Cardoso, Professional Master’s Program Applied in Health Sciences of Severino Sombra University, Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Received: April 01, 2018; Published: May 07,2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.04.001037

Full Text PDF

To view the Full Article Peer-reviewed Article PDF

Abstract

Cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) can be defined as a clinical-pathological disorder in which a primary insult in the kidney or heart initiates a series of functional and morphological secondary dysfunctions with responses in the other organs. A 63-year-old male patient with heart failure secondary to ischemic heart disease presented decompensation associated with hyperkalemia, evolving cardiogenic shock and acute kidney injury (AKI). In this case, an early use of inotropic medications to correct the low-output syndrome, associated with the identification of the AKI, was the differential that contributed to the positive outcome of the case.