Análisis y métodos de valoración de la tasa de filtración glomerular en pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca

• Autores: José Espejo Guerrero, Alejandro Jacobo Gómez-Ulla Astray, Laura Tuneu i Valls, N. Sabaté Frías, María Antonia Mangues Bafalluy
• Localización: Atención Farmacéutica, ISSN 1139-7357, Vol. 10, Nº. 5, 2008, págs. 275-284
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Objectives: Renal failure is quite frequent among patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). We evaluated the renal function according to the Cockroft-Gault and MDRD equations, and their agreement for categorizing a person with renal failure. Also, we evaluated a hypothetical relationship between the renal function and the degree of heart failure. Method: We included 101 patients from the Congestive Heart Failure Unit. The renal function was evaluated using the glomerular filtration rate according to Cockroft-Gault and Levey, whose degree of correlation was analyzed. Results: There are no significant differences between both methods. Nor it exists any relationship between glomerular filtration and the degrees of heart failure. Conclusions: The renal function can be calculated in a similar way by both Cockroft-Gault and MDRD for non-outliers. We do not observe any relationship between the degrees of heart and renal failure.