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James L Januzzi
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3 years ago
The use of natriuretic peptide testing has dramatically risen recently, in recognition of the value of these blood tests for assisting in the evaluation of patients with suspected heart failure (HF). B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is formed as a consequence of production of a 108-amino-acid precursor peptide that is synthesised within the cardiomyocyte; this 'pro-BNP108' is subsequently cleaved…
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Author(s):
James L Januzzi
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3 years ago
The use of natriuretic peptide testing has dramatically risen recently, in recognition of the value of these blood tests for assisting in the evaluation of patients with suspected heart failure (HF). B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is formed as a consequence of production of a 108-amino-acid precursor peptide that is synthesised within the cardiomyocyte; this 'pro-BNP108' is subsequently cleaved…
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Petr Peichl
Job title: Cardiology Fellow at the Department of Cardiology
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Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie
Job title: Director
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Lawrence N. Shulman
Job title: Deputy Director
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Joerg Herrmann
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Job title: Director, Cardio-Oncology Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, US
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Neal W White Jr
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3 years ago
Hospital to Home (H2H) is a national quality improvement initiative of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). It builds on the success of the ACC Door-to-Balloon Alliance for Quality and the IHI 100K Lives and 5 Million Lives campaigns. The goal of the H2H initiative is to reduce 30-day all-cause readmission rates for patients discharged with…
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Usha Krishnan
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3 years ago
Pediatric interventional cardiology was born 40 years ago in 1966, when William Rashkind developed balloon septostomy in neonates with transposition of the great arteries.1 Almost a decade later, Andreas Gruentzig developed coronary angioplasty (between 1972 and 1976), which heralded an explosive era of interventional therapy for adults with heart disease, overshadowing the advances in…
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Keith C Ferdinand
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3 years ago
Heart failure is a major health concern in the US and is particularly problematic in the African-American community where the disease has an earlier onset and exhibits increased mortality, even with hospitalisation. Early onset is manifested primarily in middle-aged patients, where the rates of heart failure are higher than that with a higher mortality than in whites. Between the ages of 45 and…
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Long-term Circulatory Support — The Left Ventricular Assist System for Advanced Heart Failure
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Srinivas Murali
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3 years ago
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