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Review outlines pediatric heart failure, noting ~20% of children with structural heart disease develop it.
Pediatric heart failure is an etiologically diverse disease with a unifying pathophysiologic mechanism involving compensatory and deleterious pathways that lead to a chronic and progressive course.
Pediatric HF warrants close monitoring in structural heart disease; leaves open targeted interventions for its progressive mechanisms.
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Madriago et al. (2010) conducted a review in Pediatric heart failure. This review outlines the pathophysiology, etiology, and management of pediatric heart failure, noting that 15% to 25% of children with structural heart disease develop heart failure.
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