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Do N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels determine the prognosis of community acquired pneumonia?
OBJECTIVE: Pneumonia is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, especially in the elderly. The use of clinical risk scores to determine prognosis is complex and therefore leads to errors in clinical practice. Pneumonia can cause increases in the levels of cardiac biomarkers such as N-terminal pro-br...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6733716/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31411279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-3713/e20180417 |