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A comprehensive echocardiographic protocol integrates newer techniques to assess ventricular function in pediatric patients.
This guide provides a practical framework for integrating newer echocardiographic techniques into routine clinical assessment of ventricular function in specific high-risk pediatric populations.
May guide ventricular assessment in high-risk pediatric groups; leaves open prospective validation of integrated protocols.
Assessment of ventricular function is an important part of every echocardiographic examination. Specific pediatric guidelines on quantification of ventricular function are available, but technology evolves quickly and it generally takes long before newer techniques are integrated into routine clinical practice and are adopted by the guidelines. In the current overview, we would like to present our experience with integrating newer echocardiographic techniques for assessing ventricular function in children using a comprehensive state-of-the-art echocardiographic functional protocol. This protocol is used for specific patient populations such as pediatric patients with cardiomyopathy, post-transplant patients and oncology patients. We present the practical aspects of the protocols, their rationale and how this can be applied in clinical practice.
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Grattan et al. (2014) conducted a review in Pediatric patients with cardiomyopathy, post-transplant patients, and oncology patients. Comprehensive state-of-the-art echocardiographic functional protocol was evaluated. A comprehensive echocardiographic functional protocol integrates newer techniques for assessing ventricular function in pediatric patients with cardiomyopathy, post-transplant, and oncology.
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