Background: Postoperative chemotherapy (pCT), together with chemoradiotherapy (pCRT), is well used for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma in esophagus. However, these adjuvant therapies may cause serious adverse effects resulting higher postoperative morbidity.
 Methods: In this study, we aim to assess and compare cardiopulmonary complications as a result pCT pCRT patients esophageal...

1. C-type natriuretic peptide is a neuropeptide, which is also produced by the vascular endothelial cells. Plasma immunoreactive C-type natriuretic peptide concentrations in patients with various diseases have not yet been studied. 2. Plasma immunoreactive C-type natriuretic peptide concentrations were studied by radioimmunoassay in normal subjects, patients with congestive heart failure, non-d...

BACKGROUND Further investigations are warranted to better characterize variables that may confound the clinical interpretation of plasma natriuretic peptide measurements, which are increasingly recognized to have diagnostic and predictive importance. METHODS Blood samples (EDTA plasma) from patients (n = 206) attending clinics for the medical treatment and follow-up of obesity were analyzed f...

Aim. To assess laboratory markers of hemodynamic status in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19. Materials and Methods. Here we examined 15 COVID-19 16 critically ill patients. The control group consisted 20 healthy volunteers. levels endothelin-1, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), N-terminal pro-brain (NT-proBNP) were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. amounts nitrites (NO 2 ) ...

Studied cases with acute dyspnea may benefit from quick diagnosis & effective treatment that can save their lives. Emergency patient's history, physical examination, chest radiography, 12-lead electrocardiography, measurement of brain natriuretic peptide or N-terminal pro-BNP are all techniques for evaluating studied who have decompensated heart failure. Chest USG has attracted interest rec...

OBJECTIVE To correlate the serum levels of B type natriuretic peptide and the N-terminal fraction of the pro-B type natriuretic peptide, as well as to analyze the influence of age, obesity, renal failure, left ventricle ejection fraction, diastolic dysfunction, and anemia on serum levels of both markers. METHODS An observational study in which the agreement was compared between these markers ...