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Natriuretic peptides as a prognostic marker and therapeutic target in heart failure
Abstract
Natriuretic peptides may have an increasing role in assisting clinicians to target treatment in patients with chronic heart failure
- ACE, angiotensin converting enzyme
- ANP, atrial natriuretic peptide
- BNP, B-type natriuretic peptide
- CHF, chronic heart failure
- ICD, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
- LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction
- MADIT, multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial
- NYHA, New York Heart Association
- Val-HeFT, valsartan heart failure trial
- B-type natriuretic peptide
- BNP
- prognosis
- heart failure
- therapy