Population
47 children admitted to Goroka Hospital in Papua New Guinea with pneumonia (convenience sample)
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Cohort
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May warrant echocardiography in severe pediatric pneumonia to detect RV failure; leaves open whether PH-targeted therapies improve outcomes.
Right ventricular failure is common in children with severe pneumonia, likely due to pulmonary hypertension rather than septic toxemia, and clinical signs of heart failure are unreliable.
Shann et al. (1998) studied this question.
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