Clinical practice: Heart failure in children. Part I: Clinical evaluation, diagnostic testing, and initial medical management

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-279

  Kantor, Paul F ^a   Mertens, Luc L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathy; Children; Heart failure; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BUMETANIDE; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; ETACRYNIC ACID; FUROSEMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; LEVOSIMENDAN; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; MILRINONE; NESIRITIDE; PLACEBO; TORASEMIDE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; BARTH SYNDROME; BECKER MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARNITINE DEFICIENCY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; EMERY DREIFUSS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIMB GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; LUNG CIRCULATION; MYOCARDITIS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; OTOTOXICITY; PEDIATRICIAN; POTASSIUM DEPLETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; SODIUM DEPLETION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT PLANNING; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHILD; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS;

EID: 77949263602     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-009-1024-y     Document Type: Review

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