Utility of B-Natriuretic Peptide in Detecting Diastolic Dysfunction

Relation of transmitral flow velocity patterns to left ventricular diastolic function: New insights from a combined hemodynamic and Doppler echocardiographic study

1988 • 1,571 citations

Evaluation of Diastolic Filling of Left Ventricle in Health and Disease: Doppler Echocardiography Is the Clinician’s Rosetta Stone

1997 • 1,271 citations

Biochemical detection of left-ventricular systolic dysfunction

1998 • 981 citations

Attenuation of Compensation of Endogenous Cardiac Natriuretic Peptide System in Chronic Heart Failure

1997 • 965 citations

Prevalence, clinical features and prognosis of diastolic heart failure: An epidemiologic perspective

1995 • 901 citations

Value of natriuretic peptides in assessment of patients with possible new heart failure in primary care

1997 • 876 citations

Utility of B-type natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of congestive heart failure in an urgent-care setting

2001 • 820 citations

Plasma brain natriuretic peptide as a biochemical marker of high left ventricular end-diastolic pressure in patients with symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction

1998 • 782 citations

Defining Diastolic Heart Failure

2000 • 735 citations

Meta-analysis of Pap Test Accuracy

1995 • 699 citations

A rapid bedside test for B-type peptide predicts treatment outcomes in patients admitted for decompensated heart failure: a pilot study

2001 • 689 citations

Rapid transcriptional activation and early mRNA turnover of brain natriuretic peptide in cardiocyte hypertrophy. Evidence for brain natriuretic peptide as an "emergency" cardiac hormone against ventricular overload.

1995 • 621 citations

Different secretion patterns of atrial natriuretic peptide and brain natriuretic peptide in patients with congestive heart failure.

1993 • 619 citations

Left ventricular volume from paired biplane two-dimensional echocardiography.

1979 • 607 citations

A rapid test for B-type natriuretic peptide correlates with falling wedge pressures in patients treated for decompensated heart failure: A pilot study

2001 • 443 citations

Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction as a Cause of Congestive Heart Failure

1992 • 394 citations

Plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and adrenomedullin

2001 • 390 citations

Determination of Left Ventricular Chamber Stiffness From the Time for Deceleration of Early Left Ventricular Filling

1995 • 310 citations

The Natural History of Left Ventricular Filling Abnormalities: Assessment by Two‐Dimensional and Doppler Echocardiography

1992 • 249 citations

Circulating levels of cardiac natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP) measured by highly sensitive and specific immunoradiometric assays in normal subjects and in patients with different degrees of heart failure

1998 • 191 citations

Diastolic dysfunction and natriuretic peptides in systolic heart failure. Higher ANP and BNP levels are associated with the restrictive filling pattern

1996 • 183 citations

Plasma brain natriuretic peptide is a biochemical marker for the prediction of progressive ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction

1998 • 182 citations

Diastolic dysfunction in elderly patients with congestive heart failure

1989 • 123 citations

Clinical criteria and biochemical markers for the detection of systolic dysfunction

2000 • 115 citations

Enhancing and Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracy

1991 • 113 citations

Estimation of left ventricular diastolic pressures from precordial pulsed-Doppler analysis of pulmonary venous and mitral flow

1994 • 104 citations

Left Ventricular Function in Hospitalized Geriatric Patients

1982 • 68 citations

Pitfalls in the Echo‐Doppler Assessment of Diastolic Dysfunction

1993 • 65 citations

PLASMA CONCENTRATION OF BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE IS RELATED TO DIASTOLIC FUNCTION IN HYPERTENSION

1997 • 59 citations

A rapid bedside test for B‐type natriuretic peptide predicts treatment outcomes in patients admitted with decompensated heart failure

2000 • 49 citations

Prospects for using a blood sample in the diagnosis of heart failure

1995 • 36 citations

Predictive Properties of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing in a Community-Based Setting

1996 • 31 citations

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with congestive heart failure.

1991 • 25 citations