Amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in children with latent rheumatic heart disease

• Main Authors: Justin P Zachariah (Author), Twalib Aliku (Author), Amy Scheel (Author), Babar S Hasan (Author), Peter Lwabi (Author), Craig Sable (Author), Andrea Z Beaton (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a global cause of early heart failure. Early RHD is characterized by valvar regurgitation, leading to ventricular distention and possible elaboration of amino-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). We investigated the ability of NT-proBNP to...