Impact of underlying heart disease per se on the utility of preoperative NT-proBNP in adult cardiac surgery.

Huiqi JiangHenrik HultkvistJonas HolmFarkas VankyYanqi YangRolf Svedjeholm

Published in: PloS one (2018)

Patients with AS or MR have higher preoperative NT-proBNP than CAD patients even after adjusting for confounders. The predictive value of NT-proBNP with regard to SPHF was confirmed in CAD and MR patients but was less convincing in AS patients.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
cardiac surgery
magnetic resonance imaging
patients undergoing
patient reported outcomes
young adults
pulmonary hypertension
patient reported