TY - GEN AU - Hanan ElSaied Hassan Zaghla AU - Hossam Ahmed Mowafi , AU - Sanaa Abd El Shafi , AU - Shereen Elgengehy , TI - Brain natriuretic peptide in congestive heart failure prevalence and prognostic value / PY - 2005/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hanan ElSaied Hassan Zaghla , KW - Brain natriuretic peptide KW - Heart failure N1 - Thesis (PH.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Critical Care Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Brain natriuretic peptide which has been previously recognized as a diagnostic and prognostic marker of heart failure , can also serve the important role of unmasking latent systolic and diastolic cardiac dysfunction in critically ill pts admitted for non cardiac problems Our data point to the positive correlation with the severity of HF in previously cardiac as well as the extent of cardiac dysfunction in critically ill non cardiac pts UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -