Measurement of Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Pleural Fluid for the Diagnosis of Pleural Effusions Due to Heart Failure

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 417-420

  Porcel, José Manuel ^a   Vives, Manuel ^b   Cao, Gonzalo ^a   Esquerda, Aureli ^a   Rubio, Manuel ^a   Rivas, M Carmen ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b Division of Internal Medicine   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROBRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THORACOCENTESIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PLEURAL EFFUSION; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 1542284693     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2003.11.008     Document Type: Article

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