Clinical physiology and functional imaging
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Clin Physiol Funct Imaging · Nov 2010
Multicenter StudyANP, BNP and D-dimer predict right ventricular dysfunction in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
The aim of this study was to predict right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) using plasma concentration of D-dimer, pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (pro-ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), endothelin-1 (ET-1) and cardiac troponin I (TNI) in patients with pulmonary embolism (PE). ⋯ Because measurements of cardiac biomarkers are inexpensive and easily obtained they may prove useful in the clinical diagnosis of RVD. However because of the small sample size, the results need to be confirmed in larger studies.