Clinical Characterization of Left Ventricular Noncompaction in Children: A Relatively Common Form of Cardiomyopathy

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 2672-2678

  Pignatelli, Ricardo H ^a   McMahon, Colin J ^a   Dreyer, William J ^a   Denfield, Susan W ^a   Price, Jack ^a   Belmont, John W ^a   Craigen, William J ^a   Wu, Jen ^a   El Said, Howaida ^a   Bezold, Louis I ^a   Clunie, Sarah ^a   Fernbach, Susan ^a   Bowles, Neil E ^a   Towbin, Jeffrey A ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Heart failure; Myocardium; Ventricles

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEFT VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTEINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0344844423     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000100664.10777.B8     Document Type: Article

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