scholarly journals INCREMENTAL PROGNOSTIC UTILITY OF BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IN PATIENTS WITH SIGNIFICANT MYXOMATOUS MITRAL REGURGITATION AND PRESERVED LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (10) ◽  
pp. A1953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amgad Mentias ◽  
Krishna Patel ◽  
Harsh Patel ◽  
A. Gillinov ◽  
Richard Grimm ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (9) ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
V V Kirillova ◽  
L A Sokolova ◽  
V N Meshchaninov ◽  
V I Pershanova

The prevalence of chronic heart failure (CHF) remains high. Echocardiography is a reliable method of diagnosing heart failure. Determination of brain natriuretic peptide allows to identify patients with the most probable diagnosis of heart failure, which requires further instrumental examination of patients. Aim. To study the level of the brain natriuretic peptide in patients with diastolic chronic heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction. Materials and methods. The study included 96 outpatients with diastolic chronic heart failure I-III functional class with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction at the age of 65.06 ± 1.15 years and 50 practically healthy people aged 39.90 ± 1.64 years as a control group who underwent a preventive examination. The level of the N-terminal fragment of the medullary natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in serum was determined using a test system (Vector-Best, Russia). Results. The concentration of NT-proBNP in patients with diastolic heart failure with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction was 108.18 ± 21.64 in the range from 0.0 to 1212.3 pg/ml compared to the control of 7.6 ± 1.38 pg/ml, p


Author(s):  
Thomas Mueller ◽  
Alfons Gegenhuber ◽  
Werner Poelz ◽  
Meinhard Haltmayer

AbstractThe aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and amino terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) for the detection of mild/moderate and severe impairment of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). In 180 subjects BNP and NT-proBNP were measured by two novel fully automated chemiluminescent assays (Bayer and Roche methods). LVEF as determined by echocardiography was categorized as normal (>60%), mildly/moderately reduced (35–60%) and severely diminished (<35%). Discriminating between patients with LVEF<35% (n=32) and subjects with LVEF ≥35% (n=148), receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis revealed an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.912 for BNP and of 0.896 for NT-proBNP (difference 0.016, p=0.554). In contrast, BNP displayed an AUC of 0.843and NT-proBNP an AUC of 0.927 (difference of 0.084, p=0.034) when comparing patients with LVEF 35–60% (n=37) and individuals with LVEF >60% (n=111). Evaluation of discordant false classifications at cut-off levels with the highest diagnostic accuracy showed advantages for BNP in the biochemical diagnosis of LVEF<35% (4 misclassifications by BNP and 25 by NT-proBNP, p<0.001) and for NT-proBNP in the detection of LVEF 35–60% (25 misclassifications by BNP and 7 by NT-proBNP, p=0.002). In conclusion, the present study indicates a different diagnostic accuracy of BNP and NT-pro-BNP for the detection of mildly/moderately reduced LVEF and severely diminished LVEF. Advantages of BNP may be advocated for the biochemical diagnosis of more severely impaired LVEF, while NT-proBNP might be a more discerning marker of early systolic left ventricular dysfunction.


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