Erschienen in:
20.08.2019 | Editorial
Balancing risks and rewards in assessing pediatric heart disease
verfasst von:
Kenneth J. Nichols, PhD, Rachel Gecelter, BS, Andrew Van Tosh, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 4/2021
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Excerpt
This month’s issue of the Journal includes an article focusing on diagnosing heart failure in children.
1 The image that most readily comes to mind of a patient in heart failure is that of a middle-aged or older adult. A patient population was studied of subjects as young as 5 years old who had several types of congenital heart disease (CHD). While the need to evaluate heart failure is not surprising in an elderly subject, it is startling to encounter heart failure in a patient who is only 5 years old. The other unusual aspect of this paper is that investigations related to congenital abnormalities usually involve populations comprised of children, but the subjects studied in this study were not only minors; the oldest patient was 85 years old. …