Brain‐type natriuretic peptide correlates with right heart pressures in a cross section of pediatric heart transplant patients
Hall EK, Glatz AC, Quartermain MD, Ravishankar C, Kaufman B, Cohen MS, Hanna BD, Goldberg DJ. Brain‐type natriuretic peptide correlates with right heart pressures in a cross section of pediatric heart transplant patients. Pediatric Transplantation 2010, 15: 70-74. PMID: 21199206, DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01421.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBrain-type natriuretic peptide levelsRejection gradeHeart transplantationHemodynamic measurementsSerum brain-type natriuretic peptide levelsPediatric heart transplant patientsCellular rejection gradeInvasive hemodynamic measurementsNatriuretic peptide levelsHeart transplant patientsRight heart pressuresRight-sided pressuresMonitoring of childrenBNP correlatesCellular rejectionTransplant patientsAdult patientsCardiac catheterizationHeart failureHeart pressuresPediatric patientsHemodynamic parametersPeptide levelsPg/Peptide correlates