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Performance of N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in critically ill patients: a prospective observational cohort study

Isaline Coquet1,2 email, Michael Darmon1 email, Jean-Marc Doise2 email, Michel Degrès3 email, Bernard Blettery2 email, Benoît Schlemmer1,4 email, Philippe Gambert3 email and Jean-Pierre Quenot2 email

1Medical Intensive Care Unit, Saint-Louis University Hospital, AP-HP, 1 Avenue Claude Vellefaux, Paris, 75010, France

2Medical Intensive Care Unit, Dijon University Hospital, 1 boulevard Jeanne d'Arc, Dijon, 21079 Dijon cedex, France

3Biochemistry Laboratory, Dijon University Hospital, 1 boulevard Jeanne d'Arc, Dijon, 21079 Dijon cedex, France

4Université Paris-7 Paris-Diderot, UFR de Médecine, 75010 Paris, France

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Critical Care 2008, 12:R137doi:10.1186/cc7110

Published: 6 November 2008


See related commentary by Collinson, http://ccforum.com/content/13/1/105


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Table S1: Factor independently associated with hospital mortality when introduced in a logistic regression model; Figure S1: Relationship between N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level and creatinine clearance; Figure S2: Relationship between N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and patient age; Figure S3a: Accuracy of N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) measurement for diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction in patients without renal failure; Figure S3b: Accuracy of N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) measurement for diagnosis of cardiac dysfunction in patients with acute renal failure; Figure S4: Accuracy of N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) measurement for the prediction of hospital death in the overall population.

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