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Usefulness of NT-pro BNP monitoring to identify echocardiographic responders following cardiac resynchronization therapy

BACKGROUND: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) improves left ventricular (LV) volumes, mitral regurgitation (MR) severity and symptoms of patients with heart failure (HF). However, ≥ 30% of patients have no significant clinical or echocardiographic improvement following CRT. Reverse remodeling...

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Autores principales: Magne, Julien, Dubois, Michelle, Champagne, Jean, Dumesnil, Jean G, Pibarot, Philippe, Philippon, François, O'Hara, Gilles, Sénéchal, Mario
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2744656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19695099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-7120-7-39