ProBNP for stratifying patients with heart failure

OBJECTIVE: To verify whether the serum levels of N-Terminal ProBNP fraction (ProBNP) allow us to identify with accuracy the clinical functional status of patients with heart failure (HF), because the clinical diagnosis of this syndrome is based basically on clinical data when the complementary tests...

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Main Authors: Antonio Carlos Pereira-Barretto, Mucio Tavares de Oliveira Jr, Fabio Gazellato Franco, Célia Cassaro-Strunz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC) 2003-09-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2003001100004