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BNP Marker of Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children
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Title BNP Marker of Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/576350?src=rss
Description Children presenting in emergency departments and intensive care units with hemodynamically significant cardiac disease have markedly elevated levels of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), researchers in Atlanta report in the June issue of Pediatrics. Reuters Health Information
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Date Jun 21, 2008
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