Proceedings of 2015 Innovations in Pediatric Heart Failure Symposium

Heart failure in children is a rare disease that often leads to poor clinical outcomes. For example, the incidence of dilated cardiomyopathy in childhood is relatively small as compared to other childhood diseases, estimated at 0.57 cases per 100,000 per year in the US. However, nearly half of these children (46%) will die or require heart transplantation within five years of presentation [1]. With the improvement in outcomes for children with congenital heart disease, the management of heart failure in survivors of congenital heart surgery has become a significant burden for many pediatric and adult congenital cardiac centers.
Source: Progress in Pediatric Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research