January 31, 2006HeartOpen Access

Outcome of acute fulminant myocarditis in children

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Population

11 children with acute fulminant myocarditis, median age 1 year.

Design

Case_series

Follow-up

median 58.7 (33.8-83.1) months

Authors

NANicolas AmabileInterventional Cardiology

Discussion

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Implication

Supports aggressive supportive care in pediatric fulminant myocarditis; hypothesis-generating from small case series.

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Population

11 children with acute fulminant myocarditis (defined by severe and acute heart failure, left ventricular dysfunction on echocardiography, recent history of viral illness, and no history of cardiomyopathy), median age 1 year.

Intervention

Aggressive symptomatic management including intravenous inotropic support, mechanical ventilation, corticosteroids, and intravenous immunoglobulin.

Outcome

Clinical outcome and left ventricular ejection fraction recovery at follow-up.hard clinical

Despite a severe presentation, acute fulminant myocarditis in children has a favorable long-term outcome with aggressive supportive care, often resulting in normalized ventricular function.

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Nicolas Amabile (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7e313ffff18652e232f1bc https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2005.078402

Topics

Heart failure HFrEF treatment Heart failure hospitalization Echocardiography Myocarditis

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Outcome of acute fulminant myocarditis in children

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Implication

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Outcome of acute fulminant myocarditis in children

Discussion

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Implication

Structured PICO

Cite This Study

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