Possible vascular role of increased plasma arginine vasopressin in congestive heart failure

Plasma Norepinephrine as a Guide to Prognosis in Patients with Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

Jay N. Cohn, T. Barry Levine, Maria Teresa Olivari et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1984 · 3.1K citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Clinical Cardiology +9

Comparison of neuroendocrine activation in patients with left ventricular dysfunction with and without congestive heart failure. A substudy of the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD).

Gary S. Francis, Claude R. Benedict, David E. Johnstone et al. · Circulation · 1990 · 1.4K citations

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Brain natriuretic peptide as a novel cardiac hormone in humans. Evidence for an exquisite dual natriuretic peptide system, atrial natriuretic peptide and brain natriuretic peptide.

Masashi Mukoyama, Kazuwa Nakao, Kiminori Hosoda et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1991 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cardiology, Physiology +6

Plasma brain natriuretic peptide as a biochemical marker of high left ventricular end-diastolic pressure in patients with symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction

Keiko Maeda, Takayoshi Tsutamoto, Atsuyuki Wada et al. · American Heart Journal · 1998 · 797 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology +14

Activity of the sympathetic nervous system and renin-angiotensin system assessed by plasma hormone levels and their relation to hemodynamic abnormalities in congestive heart failure

T. Barry Levine, Gary S. Francis, Steven R. Goldsmith et al. · The American Journal of Cardiology · 1982 · 619 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology +15