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New heart attack study results from University of Murcia described

Published in Hospital Business Week, November 4th, 2007

"' The association between B- type natriuretic peptide ( BNP) and coronary artery disease is not fully understood. To assess whether ischaemia per se is a stimulus for BNP secretion," researchers in Murcia, Spain report.

"University tertiary hospital, Spain ( Virgen de la Arrixaca). Prospective interventional study. 11 patients ( 55 ( 9) years, left ventricular ejection fraction ( LVEF) 45% ( 7%) with a non- complicated anterior myocardial infarction ( MI) and isolated stenosis of the left anterior descending ( LAD) coronary artery, successfully treated by primary angioplasty. 11.0 ( 0.9) days after MI, the LAD was occluded ( 20 min) for intracoronary infusion of...

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