Multicenter evaluation of plasma N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-pro BNP) as a biochemical screening test for asymptomatic (occult) cardiomyopathy in the cat. J Vet Intern Med 2011; in press. 7. Connolly, DJ , et al. The effect of protease inhibition on the temporal stability ...
Diagnostic update IDEXX SNAP Feline proBNP Test— use NT-proBNP at point of care to assess stretch and stress on the heart Feline heart disease is more common than many practitioners realize, and identifying cats with this elusive disease can be challenging. Building on the success of the ...
\\{BNP\\}NatriureticpeptidesCardiomyopathyObjective To prospectively evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a point-of-care (POC) N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) ELISA to assess the likelihood of moderate to severe occult heart disease (OcHD) in a clinical population of cats ...
By way of example, in 8 healthy dogs and in 15 dogs suffering from heart disease the concentration of Nt-pro-BNP was determined by means of antibodies against the epitopes in the region of the amino acids 25-41 and 74-86 of the canine Nt-proBNP (Table 2): TABLE 2 Canine Nt-proBNP ...
NT-proBNP, a surrogate marker for increases in atrial and ventricular size as well as cardiomyocyte stretch, has been validated in cats and is released in proportion to the degree of stretch and stress on the myocardium71. The ESC defined elevated natriuretic peptides (BNP, NT-proBNP) as a ...