Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2864956 | The American Journal of the Medical Sciences | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Detection of a cardiac murmur during routine medical examination of hospitalized patients is associated with increased risk of death within a year. A blood test for NT-pro-BNP gives significant additional prognostic information of a murmur and could obviate the need for echocardiography in selected patients with a murmur and normal NT-pro-BNP for whom surgery is not feasible.
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Authors
Kasper MD, Olav Wendelboe PhD, Christian DMSc, Soren DMSc, Vibeke MD, Morten MD, Henrik DMSc,