Clinical Characteristics and Treatment of Cardiomyopathies in Children.

Clinical Characteristics and Treatment of Cardiomyopathies in Children.
Curr Cardiol Rev. 2016 Feb 29;
Authors: Price JF
Abstract
Cardiomyopathies are diseases of the heart muscle, a term introduced in 1957 to identify a group of myocardial diseases not attributable to coronary artery disease. The definition has since been modified to refer to structural and or functional abnormalities of the myocardium where other known causes of myocardial dysfunction, such as systemic hypertension, valvular disease and ischemic heart disease, have been excluded. In this review we discuss the pathophysiology, clinical assessment and therapeutic strategies for hypertrophic, dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathies, with a particular focus on aspects unique to children.
PMID: 26926296 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Cardiology Reviews - March 3, 2016 Category: Cardiology Tags: Curr Cardiol Rev Source Type: research