A similar strategy with focus on a high negative predictive value of successive investigations is proposed for the exclusion of HFNEF in patients with breathlessness and no signs of congestion.
Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic value of BNP in the left ventricular remodeling and the predictive value of BNP in the survival after AMI.
The semiquantitative slide agglutination and single-tube Widal tests had positive predictive values (PPVs) of 25.0% (95% confidence interval, CI: 0.6–80.6) and 20.0% (95% CI: 2.5–55.6), respectively.
"We do not find that the predictive value is so good that we routinely should inform parents who (have) a child with a low Apgar score about the higher risk of ADHD," Obel said.
We therefore calculated the sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of CT-detected lung nodules that were followed up at least 18 months.
