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A challenging case of an ectopic cushing syndrome.

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A closer look at acute heart failure: Putting Portuguese and European data into perspective

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A new tool to measure hydration status in acute heart failure – Is bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) making its way to the wards?

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

A novel discharge risk model for patients hospitalised for acute decompensated heart failure incorporating N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels: a European coLlaboration on Acute decompeNsated Heart Failure: ELAN-HF Score

scientific article published on 31 October 2013

A systematic review of in-hospital worsening heart failure as an endpoint in clinical investigations of therapy for acute heart failure.

scientific article published on 6 October 2017

Acute heart failure and rhabdomyolysis: a clue for the diagnosis of polymyositis with cardiac involvement.

scientific article published on 3 August 2017

Adiponectin is increased in cardiac cachexia irrespective of body mass index

scientific article published on 9 April 2009

Amino terminal B-type natriuretic peptide, renal function, and prognosis in acute heart failure: a hospital cohort study

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Aminoterminal B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) in End-Stage Renal Failure Patients on Regular Hemodialysis: Does It Have Diagnostic and Prognostic Implications?

scientific article published on 05 February 2009

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in heart failure: Physicians' prescribing behavior ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Assessment of cardiovascular disease risk using immunosensors for determination of C-reactive protein levels in serum and saliva: a pilot study

scientific article published on 01 June 2014

Association between plasma leptin and adiponectin levels and diastolic function in the general population.

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Atrial Septal Defect in a Very Old Woman.

scientific article published on February 2013

Attitudes and anxiety levels of medical students towards the acquisition of competencies in communication skills ⬇️

scientific article published on August 2, 2011

B-type natriuretic peptide is related to cardiac function and prognosis in hospitalized patients with decompensated cirrhosis

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B-type natriuretic peptide is related to left ventricular mass in hypertensive patients but not in athletes

scientific article published in January 2002

BNP at discharge in acute heart failure patients: is it all about volemia? A study using impedance cardiography to assess fluid and hemodynamic status

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

Brain natriuretic peptide as a marker of cardiac involvement in hypertension

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Challenging the two concepts in determining the appropriate pre-discharge N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide treatment target in acute decompensated heart failure patients: absolute or relative discharge levels?

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Cholesterol — A marker of nutritional status in mild to moderate heart failure

scientific article published on 23 July 2007

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in heart failure. Prevalence, therapeutic and prognostic implications

scientific article published in March 2008

Chronic treatment with hydroxychloroquine and SARS-CoV-2 infection

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

Clinical significance of brain natriuretic peptide in patients with postmyocardial infarction

scientific article published in December 2000

Clinical syndrome suggestive of heart failure is frequently attributable to non-cardiac disorders--population-based study

scientific article published on 14 December 2006

Clinical usefulness of B-type natriuretic peptide measurement: present and future perspectives.

scientific article published on November 2005

Coexisting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure: implications for treatment, course and mortality

scientific article published on March 2010

Competing Risk of Cardiac Status and Renal Function During Hospitalization for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.

scientific article published on October 2015

Dabigatran for Stroke Prevention in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Answers to Challenging “Real-World” Questions ⬇️

scientific article published on May 7, 2012

Depression predicts mortality and hospitalization in heart failure: A six-years follow-up study.

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

Depressive Symptoms and Heart Failure Stages

scientific article published in January 2008

Diagnostic value of patterns of symptoms and signs of heart failure: application of latent class analysis with concomitant variables in a cross-sectional study ⬇️

scientific article published on November 12, 2012

Diastolic Function Is Impaired in Patients With Prehypertension: Data From the EPIPorto Study.

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Diastolic dysfunction in the diabetic continuum: association with insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.

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Dipeptidyl peptidase IV and Mortality After an Acute Heart Failure Episode ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2013

Dipeptidyl peptidase-IV in chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

Direct, inflammation-mediated and blood-pressure-mediated effects of total and abdominal adiposity on diastolic function: EPIPorto study

scientific article published on May 2015

Does pre-albumin predict in-hospital mortality in heart failure?

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Effect of a heart failure clinic on survival and hospital readmission in patients discharged from acute hospital care

scientific article published in June 2002

Effect of saline load and metoclopramide on the renal dopaminergic system in patients with heart failure and healthy controls.

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Evaluation of Innate Immunity Biomarkers on Admission and at Discharge From an Acute Heart Failure Episode.

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Evaluation of brain natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of heart failure

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Health-related quality of life and stages of heart failure

scientific article published on 8 November 2007

Heart failure and health related quality of life

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Heart failure and sleep apnoea: to sleep perchance to dream.

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Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: Should we submit patients without angina to coronary angiography?

scientific article published on 15 April 2015

Heart failure, aging, and renal synthesis of dopamine

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High-sensitivity troponin T: a biomarker for diuretic response in decompensated heart failure patients

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Higher BMI in heart failure patients is associated with longer survival only in the absence of diabetes

scientific article published on 01 August 2015

Higher C-Reactive Protein Predicts Worse Prognosis in Acute Heart Failure Only in Noninfected Patients

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

IL6-174 G>C Polymorphism (rs1800795) Association with Late Effects of Low Dose Radiation Exposure in the Portuguese Tinea Capitis Cohort

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Impact of Chronic Nitrate Therapy in Patients With Ischemic Heart Failure

scientific article published on 3 March 2016

Impact of the 2016 ASE/EACVI recommendations on the prevalence of diastolic dysfunction in the general population

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Impaired resolution of inflammation in human chronic heart failure

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Increasing number of components of the metabolic syndrome and cardiac structural and functional abnormalities--cross-sectional study of the general population

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Indirect calibration between clinical observers - application to the New York Heart Association functional classification system ⬇️

scientific article published on August 3, 2011

Infective Endocarditis Presenting as Acute Renal Failure and Unusual Complications

scientific article published on January 2015

Influence of socioeconomic status on therapy and prognosis after an acute heart failure episode ⬇️

scientific article published on August 12, 2013

Insulin treatment may not be associated with worse prognosis in acute heart failure diabetic patients

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Interpretation of B-type natriuretic peptides in the era of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitors

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Intraindividual variation of amino-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients with stable heart failure

scientific article published on 15 September 2006

Is the blood pressure paradox observed in all heart failure patients?

scientific article published on 25 November 2013

Is there a heart rate paradox in acute heart failure?

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Left-sided infective endocarditis: analysis of in-hospital and medium-term outcome and predictors of mortality.

scientific article published on 25 October 2013

Liver cytolysis in acute heart failure: What does it mean? Clinical profile and outcomes of a prospective hospital cohort.

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Long-term prognosis after acute heart failure: a differential impact of age in different age strata

scientific article published on 01 November 2017

Low prealbumin is strongly associated with adverse outcome in heart failure

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

Measuring renal function in acute heart failure: A place for old and new equations.

scientific article published on 31 May 2015

Medication adherence to specific drug classes in chronic heart failure

scientific article published on 01 October 2014

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism in acutely decompensated chronic heart failure.

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N-terminal-pro-brain natriuretic peptide predicts outcome after hospital discharge in heart failure patients.

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NT-proBNP and BNP: biomarkers for heart failure management

scientific article published on March 2004

Natriuretic Peptide System Activation in Acute Heart Failure Patients with Diabetes

scientific article published on 15 August 2017

Natriuretic peptide system is not exhausted in severe heart failure.

scientific article published in January 2009

Natriuretic peptides in aortic stenosis.

scientific article published on 11 September 2012

Neurohormonal activation, the renal dopaminergic system and sodium handling in patients with severe heart failure under vasodilator therapy

scientific article published in May 2001

Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in the diagnosis of type 1 cardio-renal syndrome in the general ward.

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Nutritional markers and prognosis in cardiac cachexia

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Population based study on the prevalence of the stages of heart failure

scientific article published on August 2006

Population-based study on the prevalence of spirometric obstructive pattern in Porto, Portugal

scientific article published on 27 January 2011

Predictors of Six-Month Mortality in BNP-Matched Acute Heart Failure Patients

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Predictors of natriuretic peptide non-response in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure.

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Predictors of prognosis in patients with stable mild to moderate heart failure.

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Preliminary data on the potential usefulness of B-type natriuretic peptide levels in predicting outcome after hospital discharge in patients with heart failure

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Prevalence and characteristics of sleep apnoea in patients with stable heart failure: Results from a heart failure clinic

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Prognosis of decompensated heart failure patients with preserved systolic function is predicted by NT-proBNP variations during hospitalization

scientific article published on 14 July 2006

Prognostic Effect of the Dose of Loop Diuretic Over 5 Years in Chronic Heart Failure.

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Prognostic Implications of Diuretic Dose in Chronic Heart Failure

scientific article published on 18 February 2011

Prognostic Value of Osteoprotegerin in Acute Heart Failure.

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Prognostic information provided by serial measurements of brain natriuretic peptide in heart failure

scientific article published in January 2004

Prognostic prediction in acute heart failure patients with extreme BNP values.

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Prognostic significance of applying the European Society of Cardiology consensus algorithm for heart failure with preserved systolic function diagnosis

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

Prognostic value of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in heart failure: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 27 December 2008

Prognostic value of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in acute heart failure

scientific article published on 27 August 2011

Prognostic value of sST2 added to BNP in acute heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction.

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Prognostic value of worsening renal function in outpatients with chronic heart failure

scientific article published on 27 June 2014

Relaxin serum levels in acute heart failure are associated with pulmonary hypertension and right heart overload.

scientific article published on 4 August 2016

Renal synthesis of dopamine in asymptomatic post-infarction left ventricular systolic dysfunction

scientific article published on 01 September 2000

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scientific article published on 04 May 2017

Resolving Inflammation in Heart Failure: Novel Protective Lipid Mediators

scientific article published on January 2016

Safety of spironolactone use in ambulatory heart failure patients

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Spironolactone therapy in heart failure patients with chronic kidney disease

scientific article published in October 2009

Spot urine sodium excretion as prognostic marker in acutely decompensated heart failure: the spironolactone effect.

scientific article published on 28 November 2015

Statin-Induced Low Cholesterol is Not Associated With Poor Outcome in Chronic Heart Failure

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Tailoring diuretic therapy in acute heart failure: insight into early diuretic response predictors.

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Targeting N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Older Versus Younger Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Patients

scientific article published on 25 June 2016

The cyclic guanosine monophosphate/B-type natriuretic peptide ratio and mortality in advanced heart failure

scientific article published on February 2009

The effect of dietary sodium restriction on neurohumoral activity and renal dopaminergic response in patients with heart failure.

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The lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio: an added value for death prediction in heart failure

scientific article published on 26 July 2015

The renal dopaminergic system, neurohumoral activation, and sodium handling in heart failure

scientific article published in March 2002

The role of albuminuria as a non-invasive marker for congestive acutely decompensated chronic heart failure and the spironolactone effect in elderly Portuguese: a non-randomized trial

scientific article published on 01 March 2014

Third year medical students perceptions towards learning communication skills: Implications for medical education ⬇️

scientific article published on May 19, 2011

Total parenteral nutrition by central venous catheter complicated by right atrial septic thrombus

scientific article published in July 1994

Usefulness of the Hepatocyte Growth Factor as a Predictor of Mortality in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure Regardless of Ejection Fraction.

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Validity of the Seattle Heart Failure Model for prognosis in a population at low coronary heart disease risk

scientific article published on 01 September 2016

Valvular lesions in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome: an old disease but a persistent challenge.

scientific article published on 03 March 2012

Variability of High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein in Chronic Heart Failure

scientific article published on 09 January 2009

Wet BNP, fluid and hemodynamic status at discharge in acute heart failure — Reply

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