Background/objectives. Without knowing the exact CHF prevalence, chronic heart failure (CHF) occurs frequently in elderly people both inside and outside nursing homes. For a diagnosis we have to rely on physical examination and additional tests. We therefore run the risk of missing CHF diagnoses or of diagnosing CHF when we should not. Natriuretic peptide assays have emerged as a diagnostic test but their use in nursing home residents is limited. We examined the number of misdiagnoses, the CHF prevalence and the role of natriuretic peptide. Method. Residents in one centre without aphasia, cognitive impairments or metastatic cancer were screened for CHF; the natriuretic peptide levels were measured separately. Results. Of the 150 residents, ...
Objective: Heart failure (HF) often coexists in atrial fibrillation (AF) but is frequently unrecogni...
Normal brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) levels are helpful in exclu...
Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are simple and objective measures of cardiac function. These ...
Background/objectives. Without knowing the exact CHF prevalence, chronic heart failure (CHF) occurs ...
Introduction: Heart failure (HF) is highly prevalent in nursing home residents. To diagnose HF prope...
Introduction: Heart failure (HF) is highly prevalent in nursing home residents. To diagnose HF prope...
OBJECTIVE: Diagnosing chronic heart failure (CHF) is important, since subsequent treatments by medic...
Background: Heart failure (HF) is expected to be highly prevalent in nursing home residents, but pre...
BACKGROUND: measurement of plasma natriuretic peptide levels has been proposed as a simple, accessib...
Background In patients with acute heart failure (HF) presenting at the emergency department, a B-typ...
Background: Since the burden of care for elderly patients with heart failure (HF) can be decreased b...
heart failure is primarily a disease of elderly people. Current guidelines suggest all patients with...
Copyright © 2015 Laura Leto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Com...
Objectives: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care natriuretic peptide tests in patients...
For patients presenting with acute dyspnea, an incorrect diagnosis could increase the mortality risk...
Objective: Heart failure (HF) often coexists in atrial fibrillation (AF) but is frequently unrecogni...
Normal brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) levels are helpful in exclu...
Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are simple and objective measures of cardiac function. These ...
Background/objectives. Without knowing the exact CHF prevalence, chronic heart failure (CHF) occurs ...
Introduction: Heart failure (HF) is highly prevalent in nursing home residents. To diagnose HF prope...
Introduction: Heart failure (HF) is highly prevalent in nursing home residents. To diagnose HF prope...
OBJECTIVE: Diagnosing chronic heart failure (CHF) is important, since subsequent treatments by medic...
Background: Heart failure (HF) is expected to be highly prevalent in nursing home residents, but pre...
BACKGROUND: measurement of plasma natriuretic peptide levels has been proposed as a simple, accessib...
Background In patients with acute heart failure (HF) presenting at the emergency department, a B-typ...
Background: Since the burden of care for elderly patients with heart failure (HF) can be decreased b...
heart failure is primarily a disease of elderly people. Current guidelines suggest all patients with...
Copyright © 2015 Laura Leto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Com...
Objectives: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care natriuretic peptide tests in patients...
For patients presenting with acute dyspnea, an incorrect diagnosis could increase the mortality risk...
Objective: Heart failure (HF) often coexists in atrial fibrillation (AF) but is frequently unrecogni...
Normal brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) levels are helpful in exclu...
Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are simple and objective measures of cardiac function. These ...