B-type natriuretic peptide testing and the accuracy of heart failure diagnosis in the emergency department

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-110

  Lokuge, Amaali ^a   Lam, Louisa ^b   Cameron, Peter ^a,b   Krum, Henry ^c   De Villiers Smit, V ^a,e   Bystrzycki, Adam ^a   Naughton, Matthew T ^b,d   Eccleston, David ^f   Flannery, Genevieve ^b,c   Federman, Jacob ^a,d   Schneider, Hans Gerhard ^b,d  

^a Emergency and Trauma Centre   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Clinical Pharmacology Unit   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e Emergency Department   (Australia)

^f NORTHERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

BNP; Diagnosis; Dyspnea; Emergency; Heart failure; Natriuretic peptides

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 76549136617     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.109.869438     Document Type: Article

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