Urinary N-terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Newborn Infants with Cardiac and Pulmonary Diseases.

Marwa M ElgendyRania Salah ElzayatMostafa AbdoHamed M ElsharkawyMaha AllamDina Abdelrazek Midan

Published in: American journal of perinatology (2021)

Urinary NT-proBNP is feasible to be a noninvasive screening tool to predict congenital heart diseases in full-term neonates. Further studies are needed to assess the correlation between plasma and urinary levels of NT-proBNP in congenital heart diseases in full-term and preterm infants.

Keyphrases

preterm infants
low birth weight
gestational age
heart failure
resting state
multiple sclerosis
atrial fibrillation
cerebral ischemia