Background: Acute respiratory distress (ARD) is a critical respiratory failure due to lung injury of neonates leading to the clinical appearance of poor lung compliance. The aimed of the study was to evaluate the diagnostic values in differentiating respiratory from heart diseases with using of N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro BNP) and Atrial natriuretic peptide(ANP) in neonates...

BACKGROUND Several research groups from different European countries have worked on the aetiopathogenesis of bovine neonatal pancytopenia (BNP) and an association between the use of the vaccine PregSure BVD (Pfizer, Germany) and the development of this haemorrhagic disease was confirmed. Because BNP is not a notifiable disease, it is difficult to obtain information on its incidence. Based on ph...

and fluorescence de-rivatisation with isonicotinic acid hydrazide. Chromatographia 2000;52:810 – 4. 15. Murphy BEP. Clinical evaluation of urinary cor-tisol determinations by competitive protein-binding radioassay. Some studies of the protein-binding of steroids and their application to the routine micro and ultramicro measurement of various steroids in body fluids by competitive protein-bindin...

This study evaluated brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) release in acute myocardial infarction (AMI), absolute values as well as pattern of its release. There are two different patterns of BNP release in AMI; monophasic pattern--concentration in the first measurement is higher than in the second one, and biphasic pattern--concentration in the first measurement is lower than in the second one. We o...

the Distance From Decompensated Heart Failure To the Editor: We read with great interest the recent article by Tang et al1 on plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels in ambulatory patients with established chronic symptomatic systolic heart failure. They concluded that both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients present with a wide range of plasma BNP levels and that this heterogeneity may...

OBJECTIVE B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) has diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic roles in adults with heart failure. BNP levels in children undergoing surgical repair of congenital heart disease (CHD) were characterized broadly, and distinguishable subgroup patterns delineated. DESIGN Prospective, blinded, observational case series. SETTING Academic, tertiary care, free-standing pedia...

OBJECTIVES We hypothesized that elevated B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels would be associated with a greater severity of angiographic disease and a greater extent of myocardium at risk. BACKGROUND Elevations of BNP have been associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes in patients with unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (UA/NSTEMI). METHODS Of th...

1. Whereas many studies have detailed the effects of exogenous atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) infusions in heart failure, and a limited number have examined the effects of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), none have directly compared the bioactivity of similar doses of ANP and BNP under standard conditions of impaired cardiac function. We compared the hormonal, haemodynamic and renal effects o...

OBJECTIVES We investigated expression of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) as well as atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and their genes in human right atria. Their relations with atrial pressure were also examined. BACKGROUND The BNP plays a roll in electrolyte-fluid homeostasis such as ANP. The tissue level is reported to be elevated in the failing ventricles. However, expression and transmural...