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Nicolas Trad
@nicolastrad
2nd year medical student @harvardmed @BIDMChealth. Member of @MassSCA. 🇱🇧🇺🇸🌈
Jan 15, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Time for a Tweetorial on the BNP!

You are working up a patient with dyspnea on exertion, but you’re unsure whether it’s heart failure – in fact, your suspicion is 50/50! You order a BNP, which comes back elevated at 350 pg/mL.

This BNP level: 2/ Before we answer this question, let’s review what BNP can/cannot tell us by taking a look at this incredible table. It comes from a systematic review of tests used to diagnose acute heart failure in patients with dyspnea. source: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… Image