Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Brain natriuretic peptide levels have diagnostic and prognostic capability for cardio-renal syndrome type 4 in intensive care unit patients. | Available online http content 13 3 R70 Research Brain natriuretic peptide levels have diagnostic and prognostic capability for cardio-renal syndrome type 4 in intensive care unit patients Sunghoon Park1 Goo-Yeong Cho2 Sung Gyun Kim3 Yong II Hwang1 Hye-Ryun Kang1 Seung Hun Jang1 Dong-Gyu Kim1 Young Rim Song3 Young-A Bae4 and Ki-Suck Jung1 Division of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital 896 Anyang Kyunggi-do 431-070 Republic of Korea 2Division of Cardiology Department of Internal Medicine Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital 896 Anyang Kyunggi-do 431-070 Republic of Korea 3Division of Nephrology Department of Internal Medicine Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital 896 Anyang Kyunggi-do 431-070 Republic of Korea 4Department of Radiology Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital 896 Anyang Kyunggi-do 431-070 Republic of Korea Corresponding author Ki-Suck Jung pulmoks@ Received 11 Feb 2009 Revisions requested 17 Mar 2009 Revisions received 29 Apr 2009 Accepted 15 May 2009 Published 15 May 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 R70 doi cc7878 This article is online at http content 13 3 R70 2009 Park et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Limited data are available regarding the diagnostic and prognostic utility of brain natriuretic peptide BNP in patients with chronic kidney disease CKD in the intensive care unit ICU setting. Methods All patients with CKD and a serum creatinine Cr of mg dl or higher admitted to the ICU between January 2006 and September 2007 were enrolled in this study. The CKD group was divided according to the presence or absence of acute .
