How well does B-type natriuretic peptide predict death and cardiac events in patients with heart failure: systematic review

By J. Doust, Eva Pietrzak, A. Dobson, P. Glasziou. British medical journal, 2005

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Natriuretic peptides. (2007, background): “In oth acute and chronic HF, BNP provides important rognostic information, with every 100-pg/ml increase asociated with a 35% increase in the risk of death (71).”
Listing criteria for heart transplantation: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation guidelines for the care of cardiac transplant candidates--2006. (2006, methodology): “NT-pro-BNP was as predictive as the HFSS in ne study,(38) and in another study it was a stronger redictor of death.(39,40) The value of this marker as an djunct to the HFSS in evaluation of heart transplant andidates requires further study.”