What is the prevalence of anticoagulant-related nephropathy and does it affect mortality?
Anticoagulant-related nephropathy is an underdiagnosed complication associated with increased mortality, though current evidence is limited by methodological flaws.
ARN studies are scarce and heterogeneous, and present significant methodological limitations. The high prevalence of ARN reported herein suggests that this entity is underdiagnosed in clinical practice. Mortality in patients with ARN seems to be high compared with patients without this condition in observational studies.
Moura et al. (Wed,) studied this question.