B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP): Can it improve our management of patients with congestive heart failure?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 132, Issue 43-44, 2002, Pages 618-622

  Mueller, Christian ^a   Buser, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BNP; Diagnosis; Heart failure; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

BLOOD LEVEL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 0037079536     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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