N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide eliminates the prognostic effect of atrial fibrillation in patients with chronic heart failure.
Johannes SchnorbachHanna FröhlichTobias TägerAnna CorlettoHugo A KatusLutz FrankensteinPublished in: ESC heart failure (2019)
The prognostic value of NT-proBNP in CHF is not influenced by concomitant AF. AF, in return, might be a surrogate of a worse cardiac condition rather than an independent risk factor.
Keyphrases
- atrial fibrillation
- risk factors
- oral anticoagulants
- catheter ablation
- left atrial
- left atrial appendage
- direct oral anticoagulants
- heart failure
- resting state
- left ventricular
- white matter
- ejection fraction
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- anti inflammatory
- functional connectivity
- cerebral ischemia
- coronary artery disease
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- blood brain barrier