Open AccessNT-proBNP for Pulmonologists: Not Only a Rule-Out Test for Systolic Heart Failure but Also a Global Marker of Heart Disease
Author(s) -
Siegfried Wieshammer,
Jens Dreyhaupt,
Beate Basler,
Emil Marsovszky
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
respiration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1423-0356
pISSN - 0025-7931
DOI - 10.1159/000209339
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , heart failure , heart disease , hypertensive heart disease , atrial fibrillation , ejection fraction , pulmonary hypertension
Recognizing heart disease is relevant to pulmonologists because many patients suspected to have dyspnea of pulmonary origin harbor heart disease.
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