Clinical features of patients with stress-induced cardiomyopathy associated with renal dysfunction: 7 case series in single center

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients with acute kidney injury and stress-induced cardiomyopathy

Patient No.	Underlying disease	Presenting symptom	Triggering event	RIFLE classification	Renal replacement therapy	Outcomes
1	DM, HT, AF	Chest pain	Infectious colitis	Failure	CRRT	Recovery to baseline renal function and no recur of sCMP
2	DM, AF	Dyspnea	Pneumonia	—	CRRT	In-hospital death from recurrent VT
3	ANCA-RPGN	Dyspnea	ANCA-RPGN	ESRD	Conventional HD	Maintenance HD and no recur of sCMP
4	Pyriform sinus cancer	Dyspnea	Peumonia	Injury	No	Recovery to baseline renal function and no recur of sCMP

DM diabetes mellitus, HT hypertension, AF atrial fibrillation, ANCA-RPGN anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, ESRD end-stage renal disease, CRRT continuous renal replacement therapy, HD hemodialysis, sCMP stress-induced cardiomyopathy, VT ventricular tachycardia.

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