How does congestive heart failure affect the kidneys and lungs?

Chapter 26. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure.  In:  Hurst’s the Heart [AccessMedicine]
Includes a section on “Integrative Pathophysiology with Other Organ Systems” that discusses how CHF affects kidneys and lungs.
Also includes useful references at the end of the chapter.

PubMed search:  “Heart Failure/physiopathology”[majr] AND (lung OR pulmonary OR kidney OR renal)         Filters selected:  English, Review articles

This is still a large set, including many review articles on very specific aspects of heart failure and other organs instead of an overview.

Applying a filter for Nursing journals retrieved the following results.  There were a couple of relevant articles on heart failure and kidneys.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?otool=emorylib&term=%22Heart%20Failure%2Fphysiopathology%22%5Bmajr%5D%20AND%20(lung%20OR%20pulmonary%20OR%20kidney%20OR%20renal) AND (Review[ptyp] AND English[lang] AND jsubsetn[text])

For articles discussing effects on the lungs, try this search in PubMed:  “Heart Failure”[majr] AND (lung OR pulmonary) AND (Review[ptyp] AND English[lang] ).  Again, you can use the filtering options on the left side of the page to limit to nursing journals (using the Journal Categories filter) which may focus the search on review articles more targeted to your interests.

Reviewed JKN 4/14

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