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Is bnp blood test necessary if echocardiogram was okay? have shortness of breath and cough
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Sometimes: BNP sometimes helps in diagnosing diastolic heart failure. Patients with diastolic heart failure have normal echocardiograms for the most part.
Answered 8/1/2015
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