What are the clinical and echocardiographic determinants of adverse outcomes in children with dilated cardiomyopathy?
In children with dilated cardiomyopathy, older age at presentation and lack of systolic function improvement predict adverse outcomes, suggesting a need for early transplantation consideration.
Older age at presentation and lack of improvement in systolic function are associated with an adverse outcome, and early transplantation should be considered in these patients. There is a persistent risk of late sudden death in those children in whom echocardiographic dimensions remain abnormal.
Burch et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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