1. Amino-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in Patients With Previous Obstructive Airway Disease
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Tung, Roderick H., Camargo, Carlos A., Krauser, Dan, Anwaruddin, Saif, Baggish, Aaron, Chen, Annabel, and Januzzi, James L.
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Cardiac patients -- Care and treatment ,Heart failure -- Diagnosis ,Heart failure -- Care and treatment ,Asthma -- Diagnosis ,Asthma -- Care and treatment ,Emergency medicine ,Medical colleges ,Natriuretic peptides ,Health - Abstract
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.12.022 Byline: Roderick H. Tung (a), Carlos A. Camargo (b), Dan Krauser (a), Saif Anwaruddin (a), Aaron Baggish (a), Annabel Chen (a), James L. Januzzi (a) Abstract: We evaluate results from amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) testing with or without those of clinical judgment for the evaluation of dyspneic patients with previous chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma. Author Affiliation: (a) Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (b) Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Article History: Received 12 July 2005; Revised 13 September 2005; Revised 18 November 2005; Accepted 20 December 2005 Article Note: (footnote) Supervising editor: W. Brian Gibler, MD, Author contributions: JJ conceived the study, designed the trial, and obtained research funding. JJ supervised the conduct of the trial and data collection and analysis. RT, CC, DK, SA, AB, and AC undertook recruitment of patients and managed the data. RT drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. RT and JJ take responsibility for the paper as a whole., Funding and support: Supported by a grant from Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN.
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