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[Brain natriuretic peptide and heart failure, from bench to bedside]
P Jourdain1, F Funck, M Bellorini
1Unité thérapeutique d'insuffisance cardiaque et service de cardiologie, centre hospitalier R.-Dubos, 95300 Pontoise, France. patrick.jourdain@ch-pontoise.fr
Annales De Cardiologie Et D'Angeiologie
|September 17, 2004
Abstract:
Diagnosing or managing heart failure may still remain difficult. BNP and NT proBNP are neurohormones specifically secreted by myocytes. They have proved their effectiveness to improve clinician's diagnostic accuracy for diagnosing heart failure. BNP use is now recommended by European Society of Cardiology guidelines but multiplication of publications about BNP and NTProBNP show new possible applications for natriuretic peptides.