Medicina clinica
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March 2015
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Observational Study
N-terminal Pro-B type natriuretic peptide as long-term predictor of death after an acute pulmonary embolism.
After an acute pulmonary embolism few long-term prognostic factors have shown to be of practical use. We hypothesized that, as in heart failure, natriuretic peptides could serve as biomarkers of a late deleterious prognosis. ⋯ Besides the unchangeable age, plasma level of NT-ProBNP measured on acute pulmonary embolism could predict longer-term all-cause death.