Do brain-type natriuretic peptide levels correlate with pulmonary hypertension and requirement for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in congenital diaphragmatic hernia?
Our findings indicate that plasma BNP levels correlate with pulmonary hypertension as well as the requirement for ECMO in CDH patients. Monitoring of serial BNP levels may provide a useful prognostic tool in the management of CDH.
These data provide in vivo evidence that ET-1 directly increases glomerular permeability to albumin and that albuminuria is prevented by increased PT albumin uptake in the rat.