Pediatric cardiac intensivists: are enough being trained?
There is a discrepancy between the current and growing need for trained pediatric cardiac intensivists and the graduation rate of these professionals from teaching programs.
The authors demonstrated the existence of an impaired production and/or release of proBNP(1-108) along with a concomitant reduction of BNP(1-32) and NT-proBNP(1-76) in the early stages of hypertension, with a significant elevation only in stage 2 hypertension. Importantly, they simultaneously demonstrated a lack of compensatory ANP elevation in advanced hypertension.