The advent of renal congestion in heart failure was first described by Frédéric Justin Collet (1870-1966), a French pathologist who found the notion of passive renal congestion related to heart dysfunction, creating the revealing term “rein cardiaque” in the early 1900s. The term cardiorenal syndrome emerged from a 2004 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working GrouP conference evaluating the complex interactions between the heart and kidney. The main pathophysiological mechanisms related to this condition are increased central venous and […]