Introduction

Cardiomyopathies result in some of the worst pediatric cardiology outcomes, as nearly 40 percent of children who present with symptomatic cardiomyopathy receive a heart transplant or die within the first 2 years after diagnosis. The percentage of children with cardiomyopathy who received a heart transplant has not declined over the past 10 years and cardiomyopathy remains the leading cause of serious complications, poor quality of life and transplantation for children over one year of age. St udies from the NHLBI-funded Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry have shown that etiologies are established in very few children with cardiomyopathy yet genetic causes are likely to be present in most.

Source: Progress in Pediatric Cardiology - June 1, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steven E. Lipshultz, James D. Wilkinson, Steven Colan, Melanie Everitt, Paul Barach, John Lynn Jefferies Source Type: research