Why the study?
What are the clinical presentations and predictors of death in pediatric myocarditis?
Population
27 children with clinical myocarditis in a tertiary hospital in Taiwan, mean age 9.1±5.1 years, 14 boys and…
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GI symptoms, hepatomegaly, and hypotension may predict death in pediatric myocarditis; this cohort finding leaves open validation in larger studies.
What are the clinical presentations and predictors of death in pediatric myocarditis?
Pediatric myocarditis frequently presents with gastrointestinal symptoms, which, along with hepatomegaly and hypotension, are predictors of mortality.
Hsiao et al. (2011) studied this question.
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