Pathophysiology and Significance of Natriuretic Peptides in Patients with End-stage Kidney Disease.

Pathophysiology and Significance of Natriuretic Peptides in Patients with End-stage Kidney Disease. Clin Biochem. 2020 Jun 05;: Authors: Yang WL, Fahim M, Johnson DW Abstract Natriuretic peptides (NP), especially B type (BNP) and its N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), have long been regarded as biomarkers of volume overload and tools to exclude heart failure in the general population. However, their role in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is less certain given that BNP and NT-proBNP are excreted by the kidney and so serum concentrations of NPs are nearly universally elevated compared to controls. Nevertheless, the accumulated evidence suggests thatserum concentrations of NPs in patients with ESKD show moderate or strong positive relationships with underlying heart disease, abnormal cardiac structure or function and mortality. Limited evidence also supports the role of BNP including NT-proBNP, ANP in some studies, rather than CNP or DNP in risk stratification among ESKD patients as well as the utility of BNP samplings pre- and post- hemodialysis. However, studies of the cut-off values of NPs have yielded inconsistent results, such that further large-scale studies are needed to clarify these issues. This review summarizes the pathophysiology and significance of NPs in ESKD patients, especially their potential role as risk stratification biomarkers in clinical management. PMID: 32511964 [PubMed - as supplied ...
Source: Clinical Biochemistry - Category: Biochemistry Authors: Tags: Clin Biochem Source Type: research