Determinants of outcome in isolated ventricular noncompaction in childhood.
Isolated ventricular noncompaction is now recognized as an important cause of pediatric cardiomyopathy; however, predictors of outcome have yet to be detailed. Echocardiographic features at presentation, including increased noncompacted to compacted segment ratio and enlarged left ventricular dimension, were found to be associated with poor outcomes (heart transplantation, transplant listing, or death).
Wald
Rachel
R
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Veldtman
Gruschen
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Golding
Fraser
F
Kirsh
Joel
J
McCrindle
Brian
B
Benson
Lee
L
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male