Interpretation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Children With Cardiomyopathy by Echocardiography | Zendy

Andréea Dragulescu | Zendy; Luc Mertens | Zendy; Mark K. Friedberg | Zendy

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Interpretation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Children With Cardiomyopathy by Echocardiography

Author(s) -

Andréea Dragulescu,

Luc Mertens,

Mark K. Friedberg

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

circulation cardiovascular imaging

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.584

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1942-0080

pISSN - 1941-9651

DOI - 10.1161/circimaging.112.000175

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiology , cardiomyopathy , diastole , heart failure , blood pressure

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (DD) is a key determinant of outcomes in pediatric cardiomyopathy (CM), but remains very challenging to diagnose and classify. Adult paradigms and guidelines relating to DD are currently applied in children. However, it is unknown whether these are applicable to children with CM. We investigated the assessment of DD in children with CM using adult and pediatric echocardiographic criteria and tested whether recent adult guidelines are applicable to this population.

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