The usefulness of brain natriuretic peptide level in diagnosis and prognosis of patients admitted to critical care unit with shortness of breath

BACKGROUND: Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) is a polypeptide secreted by the ventricles as a response to cardio-myocyte stretching. Due to its cardiac origin and correlation with volume overload it has been successfully used for a long time in diagnosing and prognosticating Cardiogenic Pulmonary Ede...

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Autores principales: Abdeen, Yazan, Sen, Parijat, Safdar, Syed, Katapally, Ram, Arqoob, Ahmad Abu, Macbruce, Daphne, Shaaban, Hamid, Adelman, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4626937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26604526
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.166611

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4626937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26604526
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.166611

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