Key result
Kwashiorkor results in a clinically and radiologically small heart due to decreased cardiac muscle mass, as demonstrated by echocardiography.
Why the study?
Does echocardiography demonstrate the cause of small heart size in patients with kwashiorkor?
Does echocardiography demonstrate the cause of small heart size in patients with kwashiorkor?
Echocardiography demonstrates that the small heart size observed in kwashiorkor is attributable to decreased muscle mass.
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Echocardiography supports cardiac atrophy in kwashiorkor; leaves open effects on management or prognosis.
In kwashiorkor the heart is clinically and radiologically small. This study utilises echocardiography, a tool not previously used in this disease, to show that this is due to decreased muscle mass.
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Bergman et al. (1988) studied this question. Kwashiorkor results in a clinically and radiologically small heart due to decreased cardiac muscle mass, as demonstrated by echocardiography.
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