Attenuation of compensation of endogenous cardiac natriuretic peptide system in chronic heart failure: prognostic role of plasma brain natriuretic peptide concentration in patients with chronic symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction.

T, Tsutamoto; A, Wada; K, Maeda; T, Hisanaga; Y, Maeda; D, Fukai; M, Ohnishi; Y, Sugimoto; M, Kinoshita

doi:10.1161/01.cir.96.2.509

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Attenuation of compensation of endogenous cardiac natriuretic peptide system in chronic heart failure: prognostic role of plasma brain natriuretic peptide concentration in patients with chronic symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction.

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Tsutamoto T

Wada A

Maeda K

Abstract

<h4>Background</h4>Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) have high plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), mainly from the atrium, and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), mainly from the ventricle. We examined the prognostic role of plasma BNP in chronic CHF patients in comparison wit...

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