... of this study was to determine the predictive value of pre- and post-procedural serum brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) on 1-year all-cause mortality in patients who underwent TAVR. Methods: In this population-based study, we included 148 TAVR patients treated at the Poriya Medical Center between June 1, 2015...

...Zubair Shah; Mark Wiley; Arun Mahankali Sridhar; Reza Masoomi; Mazda Biria; Dhananjay Lakkireddy; Buddhadeb Dawn; Kamal Gupta Objective: The aim of this paper was to study the association between body mass index (BMI) and coronary sinus (CS) brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels in patients...

...) and HR variability], laboratory indices [serum creatinine and creatinine clearance, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), NT-proBNP, and C-reactive protein and troponin T levels] were assessed with regard to the MVA prognosis. Results: MVA was diagnosed in 11 patients during the prospective follow-up. Prior...

...Chao Chang; Hua Yang; Shuan-li Xin; Ji-xiang Liu; Xiu-feng Zhao; Li-jun Liu; Li-ying Han; Li-min Meng; Qin Li Objective: Macrophage apoptosis plays a key role in atherosclerotic plaque rupture. This study investigated the effects of recombinant human brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) on oxidised low...

...-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). Elevated enzymes improved significantly throughout the course of treatment without cardiac specific medication but exceeded the normal range for weeks. Abnormally high myocardial enzymes and NT-proBNP in cachectic anorectic patients might resemble...

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... diastolic dysfunction and dialytic hypotension. Methods: We performed a prospective cross-sectional study of 72 hemodialysis patients with a low dialysis vintage, 36 of whom had dialysis hypotension, based on echocardiography and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) assay. Results: There was no difference...

...Chiara Lazzeri; Giorgio La Villa; Gianni Bisi; Vieri Boddi; Gianni Messeri; Gaetano Strazzulla; Franco Franchi To investigate the cardiovascular effects of pathophysiological levels of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), 7 healthy subjects were submitted to equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography...

...Yoshiji Yamada; Junki Goto; Mitsuhiro Yokota We studied the relation between the plasma concentration of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and echocardiographic findings to determine the sensitivity of BNP as an indicator of left-ventricular dysfunction in elderly patients with various cardiovascular...

...James K.H. Luk; Eric F.C. Wong; Normal L.M. Wong The effects of natriuretic peptides in kidney are blunted in congestive heart failure (CHF). The aim of this study is to examine the changes of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) second messenger productions in CHF...

...Naoshi Arakawa; Motoyuki Nakamura; Hidehiko Aoki; Katsuhiko Hiramori To investigate the clinical significance of plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) measurement in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI), circulating levels of BNP, atrial natriuretic peptide, creatine kinase (CK...

... peptides in patients with CD, we measured atrial (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), and compared the findings with other dilated cardiomyopathies (DCM). Methods: Blood samples were obtained from 111 CD patients, 62 patients with DCM due to other causes, and 43 gender- and age-matched healthy...

...David Leibowitz; David Planer; David Rott; Yair Elitzur; Tova Chajek-Shaul; A. Teddy Weiss Objectives: Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels correlate with prognosis in patients with cardiac disease and may be useful in the risk stratification of cardiac patients undergoing noncardiac surgery (NCS...

... the contribution of right ventricular apical pacing to the left ventricular negative remodeling, we measured the inter- and intraventricular mechanical dyssynchrony by echocardiography as well as plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level in 116 consecutive patients of symptomatic...

... was performed in each patient. A fasting blood sample was taken for DNA extraction, measurement of renal function parameters (serum creatinine, urea and uric acid concentrations assessed by standard laboratory methods) and brain natriuretic peptide concentration (BNP, AxSym assay, Abbott). For patients who were...

... treatment of the heart disease. The aim of our study was to evaluate both the exercise capacity, using the cardio-pulmonary stress test, and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels in asymptomatic adults with ASD. Thirty-six patients with patent secundum type ASD (aged mean 44.7 ± 8.2 years) were studied...

... of human atrial natriuretic peptide (p < 0.05) and brain natriuretic peptide (p < 0.01) than 13 responders. Discriminant analysis with a linear discriminant function showed the following equation predicted response to beta-blocker therapy: h = 0.004 × systolic blood pressure – 0.002 × brain...

...Craig S. Vinch; Jason Rashkin; Giridhar Logsetty; Dennis A. Tighe; Jeffrey C. Hill; Theo E. Meyer; Lawrence S. Rosenthal; Gerard P. Aurigemma Background: Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels have been reported to fall following cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (AF). The mechanism for the fall...

... in the study. Median N-terminal fragment of the brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) prohormone (Nt-proBNP) plasma level was 136 (40–335) pmol/l. Patients with increasing levels of troponin I [from low (0.1–10 ng/ml), intermediate (10–40 ng/ml) to high (≧40 ng/ml) levels] had significantly increased levels of Nt...

...Paulo Bettencourt; António Ferreira; Paula Dias; Alice Castro; Luís Martins; Mário Cerqueira-Gomes A diagnosis of heart failure (HF) can be difficult, especially in patients with mild symptomatology. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the significance of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP...