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ReviewCurrent heart failure reports2013

Incorporating common biomarkers into the clinical management of heart failure.

Meghana Halkar, W H Wilson Tang

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Review in Current heart failure reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Meghana HalkarDepartment of Hospital Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
W H Wilson Tang

Funding

Functional Cardio-MetabolomicsP20HL113452 · NHLBI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI HAZEN, STANLEY L, TANG, WAI HONG WILSON · 2012 to 2016
$4.8M
Nitrative stress in heart failureR01HL103931 · NHLBI · CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COM-CWRU · PI TANG, WAI HONG WILSON · 2010 to 2014
$3.8M
NHLBI NIH HHS P20 HL113452NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL103931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure is a prevalent and costly disease, and its management with polypharmacy is complex. Commonly available biomarkers primarily help to 1) establish or refute the diagnosis of heart failure; 2) help to determine the disease severity; and 3) identify adverse consequences of treatment. Although several of them are commonly ordered (such as electrolytes, renal and liver function), their use is primarily based on broad clinical experience rather than established evidence. The availability of cardiac-specific natriuretic peptide testing has provided an evidence-based breakthrough in our abilities to establish the diagnosis and severity of heart failure, yet the appropriate boundaries to guide management are still in refinement.

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BiomarkersDrug MonitoringHeart FailureHumansNatriuretic PeptidesPractice Guidelines as TopicPrognosisSeverity of Illness IndexBiomarkersNatriuretic Peptides

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PMID24085636
PMCPMC3842191

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