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A 2.5-year-old patient presenting with weakness and anorexia was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, highlighting the importance of differentiating it from constrictive pericarditis.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report highlights the rare diagnosis of restrictive cardiomyopathy in a 2.5-year-old child presenting with weakness and anorexia.
Clinicians should consider restrictive cardiomyopathy in toddlers with nonspecific symptoms; leaves open need for larger studies on differentiation and management.
Restrictive cardiyomyopathy (RCM) is a veryrarely diagnosed cardiyomyopathy in childhood. Most RCM in childhood isidiopathic with a high mortality. Biatrial enlargement and normal sizedventricles with normal or increased ventricular wall thickness are thecharacteristic morphological features of RCM. The differential diagnosis ofconstrictive pericarditis is important. In this article a patient at 2.5 yearsof age with RCM is discussed regarding the literature.
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Demircan et al. (2018) conducted a case report in Restrictive cardiomyopathy (n=1). A 2.5-year-old patient presenting with weakness and anorexia was diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, highlighting the importance of differentiating it from constrictive pericarditis.
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