Preoperative Echocardiographic Indices Associated With Elevated Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Liver Transplant Recipients

The heart matters when the liver shatters! Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy: frequency, comparison, and correlation with severity of disease

“…A study by Radvan et al reported a significant correlation between serum BNP levels and MELD scores [56]. Kim et al in their study have shown that elevated BNP in patients with end-stage liver disease may reflect increased pulmonary arterial pressure, and predicts post-transplant mortality [57]. In conclusion, serum BNP level is correlated significantly with the stage of cirrhosis, hepatocellular failure, and portal hypertension.…”

Additional Prognostic Value of EAS index in predicting the occurrence of rehospitalizations in chronic heart failure: data from the Daunia Heart Failure Registry

“…However, in a retrospective analysis on end‐stage liver diseases , the association between EAS index and BNP was not confirmed; this retrospective study, however, suffers from several limitations, and primarily, its results may not be easily extended to general population.…”

Myocardial Injury Biomarkers in Newborns with Congenital Heart Disease

“…27 TDI E 0 /A 0 was previously used in newborns of diabetic mothers, and a significant decrease of the E 0 /A 0 ratio at the tricuspid annulus was found in infants of mothers with pregestational diabetes compared with those with gestational diabetes. 28 Kim et al 22 evaluated TDI E 0 /A 0 parameter as a marker of diastolic function and correlated it with brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels in a population of liver transplant recipients. TDI has also been used in newborns for each myocardial segment, including peak early diastolic velocity (E 0 ) and peak late diastolic velocity (A 0 ), to evaluate postnatal left ventricular diastolic function after fetal aortic valvuloplasty.…”

“…21 The apical four-chamber view was used; care was taken to align the sample volume as vertically as possible with respect to the cardiac apex, 20 and the ratio E 0 /A 0 was calculated. 22 Cardiac performance evaluation was blinded for blood test results.…”