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Echocardiographic Features of Right Heart Failure in Infancy and Childhood
Author(s) -
DI SESSA THOMAS G.,
SALIM MUBADDA A.,
ALPERT BRUCE S.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00678.x
Subject(s) - sequela , medicine , right heart failure , heart failure , pulmonary hypertension , cardiology , heart defect , right heart , afterload , pediatrics , heart disease , hemodynamics , surgery
In infants and children, right heart failure is most frequently a consequence of increased afterload (pulmonary hypertension). However, it is also observed as a sequela of congenital cardiovascular surgery. The purpose of this report is to present the causes of right heart dysfunction in children and to define the echo‐Doppler methods used in the evaluation of right heart failure.