Can brain natriuretic peptide be used to diagnose and manage patients with diastolic heart failure?
Burkert Pieske
Correspondence Abteilung Kardiologie und Pneumologie, Universität Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Str 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany
Email pieske@med.uni-goettingen.de
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When should we measure BNP or N-terminal pro-BNP in patients with symptoms of HF? What will this value tell us? Numerous studies have found that normal BNP levels indicate that significant systolic dysfunction is unlikely, but do not always exclude diastolic HF. Elevated BNP levels reveal nothing about the underlying etiology of cardiac disease, but more substantial increases appear to relate to a more severe phenotype and poorer prognosis.1
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