Do pediatric patients with dilated cardiomyopathy have a worse cardiovascular prognosis compared to adult patients?
Pediatric patients with dilated cardiomyopathy face a worse cardiovascular prognosis than adults despite higher baseline ejection fractions, highlighting the need for age-specific risk stratification.
Despite the pediatric DCM population having higher baseline left ventricular ejection fraction and similar long-term echocardiographic progression compared with the adult DCM population, the pediatric DCM patients had worse cardiovascular prognosis.
Puggia et al. (Fri,) studied this question.