The inclusion of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in a sensitive screening strategy for systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension: a cohort study
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- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Arthritis Research & Therapy
- Vol. 15 (6), R193
- https://doi.org/10.1186/ar4383
Abstract
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a major cause of mortality in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Screening guidelines for PAH recommend multiple investigations, including annual echocardiography, which together have low specificity and may not be cost-effective. We sought to evaluate the predictive accuracy of serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in combination with pulmonary function tests (PFT) (‘proposed’ algorithm) in a screening algorithm for SSc-PAH.This publication has 39 references indexed in Scilit:
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