Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management
Pediatric heart failure represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood. Currently, there are well-established guidelines for the management of heart failure in the adult population, but an equivalent consensus in children is lacking. In the clinical setting, ensuring an accura...
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| author | Daniele Masarone Fabio Valente Marta Rubino Rossella Vastarella Rita Gravino Alessandra Rea Maria Giovanna Russo Giuseppe Pacileo Giuseppe Limongelli |
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| description | Pediatric heart failure represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood. Currently, there are well-established guidelines for the management of heart failure in the adult population, but an equivalent consensus in children is lacking. In the clinical setting, ensuring an accurate diagnosis and defining etiology is essential to optimal treatment. Diuretics and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition are the first-line therapies, whereas beta-blockers and devices for electric therapy are less used in children than in adults. In the end-stage disease, heart transplantation is the best choice of treatment, while a left ventricular assist device can be used as a bridge to transplantation (due to the difficulties in finding organ donors), recovery (in the case of myocarditis), or destination therapy (for patients with systemic disease). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-32e19104f1104b71a57dee4f48b064192025-08-20T02:10:41ZengElsevierPediatrics and Neonatology1875-95722017-08-0158430331210.1016/j.pedneo.2017.01.001Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and ManagementDaniele MasaroneFabio ValenteMarta RubinoRossella VastarellaRita GravinoAlessandra ReaMaria Giovanna RussoGiuseppe PacileoGiuseppe LimongelliPediatric heart failure represents an important cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood. Currently, there are well-established guidelines for the management of heart failure in the adult population, but an equivalent consensus in children is lacking. In the clinical setting, ensuring an accurate diagnosis and defining etiology is essential to optimal treatment. Diuretics and angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition are the first-line therapies, whereas beta-blockers and devices for electric therapy are less used in children than in adults. In the end-stage disease, heart transplantation is the best choice of treatment, while a left ventricular assist device can be used as a bridge to transplantation (due to the difficulties in finding organ donors), recovery (in the case of myocarditis), or destination therapy (for patients with systemic disease).http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875957217300505cardiomyopathiescongenital heart diseasespediatric cardiac transplantationpediatric heart failure |
| spellingShingle | Daniele Masarone Fabio Valente Marta Rubino Rossella Vastarella Rita Gravino Alessandra Rea Maria Giovanna Russo Giuseppe Pacileo Giuseppe Limongelli Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management Pediatrics and Neonatology cardiomyopathies congenital heart diseases pediatric cardiac transplantation pediatric heart failure |
| title | Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management |
| title_full | Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management |
| title_fullStr | Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management |
| title_short | Pediatric Heart Failure: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management |
| title_sort | pediatric heart failure a practical guide to diagnosis and management |
| topic | cardiomyopathies congenital heart diseases pediatric cardiac transplantation pediatric heart failure |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875957217300505 |
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