Brain natriuretic peptide-guided treatment does not improve morbidity and mortality in extensively treated patients with chronic heart failure: responders to treatment have a significantly better outcome

B-Type Natriuretic Peptide–Guided Heart Failure Therapy

(2010) Pramote Porapakkham   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Plasma B-type natriuretic peptide and anti-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-10 levels predict adverse clinical outcome in chronic heart failure patients with depressive symptoms: a 1-year follow-up study

(2009) John T. Parissis et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Adequacy of diagnosis and treatment of chronic heart failure in primary health care in Sweden

(2009) Ulf Dahlstrom et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Adjusting for clinical covariates improves the ability of B-type natriuretic peptide to distinguish cardiac from non-cardiac dyspnoea: a sub-study of HEARD-IT

(2009) R. Kevin Rogers et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

BNP-Guided vs Symptom-Guided Heart Failure Therapy

(2009) Matthias Pfisterer et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

N-Terminal Pro–B-Type Natriuretic Peptide-Guided Treatment for Chronic Heart Failure

(2009) John G. Lainchbury et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Lowered B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Response to Levosimendan or Dobutamine Treatment Is Associated With Improved Survival in Patients With Severe Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure

(2009) Alain Cohen-Solal et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008‡

(2008) Kenneth Dickstein et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Clinical value of B-type natriuretic peptide for the assessment of left ventricular filling pressures in patients with systolic heart failure and inconclusive tissue Doppler indexes

(2008) Apostolos Karavidas et al.   HEART AND VESSELS