Pediatric Restrictive Cardiomyopathies

• Main Authors: Raffaello Ditaranto (Author), Angelo Giuseppe Caponetti (Author), Valentina Ferrara (Author), Vanda Parisi (Author), Matteo Minnucci (Author), Chiara Chiti (Author), Riccardo Baldassarre (Author), Federico Di Nicola (Author), Simone Bonetti (Author), Tammam Hasan (Author), Luciano Potena (Author), Nazzareno Galiè (Author), Luca Ragni (Author), Elena Biagini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is the least frequent phenotype among pediatric heart muscle diseases, representing only 2.5-3% of all cardiomyopathies diagnosed during childhood. Pediatric RCM has a poor prognosis, high incidence of pulmonary hypertension (PH), thromboembolic events, and sudden de...