Key result
RV biopsy findings correlate with clinical severity and residual functional impairment in pediatric myocarditis.
Why the study?
Do right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy findings correlate with clinical severity in children with myocarditis?
Do right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy findings correlate with clinical severity in children with myocarditis?
In children with myocarditis, right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy findings correlate well with clinical severity and residual functional impairment.
Hypothesis-generating for biopsy utility in pediatric myocarditis; larger prospective studies needed before clinical adoption.
Eight children with myocarditis underwent a cardiac catheterization study and right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy. The degree of histological changes of the biopsy specimens correlated well with the severity of the clinical manifestations. Patients who had evidence of residual functional impairment had biopsy findings compatible with their clinical course.
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Takahashi et al. (1983) studied this question. Right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy findings correlated well with the severity of clinical manifestations and residual functional impairment in children with myocarditis.
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