[XIII Congresso Societa' Italiana di Cardiologia 1956, in Trieste and the birth of cardionephrology].

The Author comes recently across the proceedings volume of the forgotten XVIII Congress of the ''Società Italiana di Cardiologia'' held in Trieste on May 1956. The proceedings focus on the ''cardiopatia renale'', i.e. the heart lesion observed in Kidney disease, namely in acute glomerulonephritis. Later ''Cardiopatia renale'' changes into ''uremic cardiomyopathy'' but the terms seem uncorrect as they do not include the cardiac derangement in early stages of nephropathies. The diction ''cardiomyopaty'' in uremic seems more complete. The topic becomes very ''hot'' and the kidney- heart scientific culture grows more and more and culminates with the ''Cardionephrology'' term coined in 1991 at Assisi Meeting and then wide spread all over Europe.