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ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2018

A Decade of NT-proBNP in Acute Kawasaki Disease, from Physiological Response to Clinical Relevance.

Audrey Dionne, Nagib Dahdah

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Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Audrey DionneDepartment of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Audrey.Dionne@cardio.chboston.org.
Nagib DahdahDepartment of cardiology, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal University, 3175, Cote Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC H3T 1C5, Canada. nagib.dahdah.hsj@ssss.gouv.qc.ca.
Boston Children's Hospital · USCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Kawasaki disease (KD) is an inflammatory febrile illness of early childhood and the primary cause of acquired heart disease during childhood. Coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) are a serious complication of KD, leading to ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death. Timely diagnosis in the first ten days of fever is crucial to reduce the risk of coronary artery complications. Nitrogen-terminal B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), originally used for the management of adults with heart disease, was shown to be useful in the diagnosis and management of patients with KD. NT-proBNP is released by cardiomyocytes in response to mechanical factors such as the dilation of cardiac chambers, and to pro-inflammatory cytokines. The utility of NT-proBNP as a biological marker in KD is based on the universal myocardial inflammatory component early in the course of the disease. Patients with KD have higher NT-proBNP at the time of diagnosis than febrile controls, with a pooled sensitivity of 89% (95% confidence interval 78⁻95), and a specificity of 72% (95% confidence interval 58⁻82). The positive likelihood ratio is 3.2:1 (95% confidence interval 2.1⁻4.8). Moreover, patients with resistance to intravenous immunoglobulin treatment and CAA were found to have higher levels of NT-proBNP, suggesting a prognostic role. Nevertheless, the non-specificity of NT-proBNP to KD limits its use as a stand-alone test. In this light, a tentative associative retrospective diagnostic algorithm was highly reliable for including all cases at risk of CAA, which warrants further prospective studies for a better diagnostic index of suspicion and risk stratification of patients.

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PMCPMC6210997
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