CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
Karen Titus
November 2015—Cardiologist James Januzzi Jr., MD, sounds like he could be running for political office. Are you going to settle for something different? Or is it time to demand something better?
Those questions aren’t aimed at voters; rather, he issued that challenge to his audience at an AACC session during the group’s annual meeting this summer. When it comes to novel biomarkers for heart failure, being new is not enough. How do they perform relative to the natriuretic peptides? Do they add prognostic as well as diagnostic information? Are they useful for treating and monitoring patients?
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