Rein cardiaque: Historical Notes on Cardiorenal Syndrome

Abstract

Cardiorenal syndrome describes an active inter-relationship between heart and renal malfunction. The notion of passive renal congestion because of heart dysfunction and the informative term “rein cardiaque” by the French pathologist Frédéric Justin Collet (1870–1966) that reiterates revolutionized physiological thinking based on autopsy findings will be briefly discussed here.