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Embolic stroke in a child with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.
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An eleven year old boy presented with sudden onset right-sided hemiplegia and ipsilateral lower facial weakness and two-dimensional echo revealed the diagnosis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy with multiple intracardiac clots, and died 2.5 months later due to resistant cardiac failure.Abstract:
An eleven year old boy presented with sudden onset right-sided hemiplegia and ipsilateral lower facial weakness Two-dimensional echo revealed the diagnosis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy with multiple intracardiac clots MRI scan of head showed infarctions in the area of caudate nuclei, putamen, brain stem and cerebellum On anticoagulation therapy, all thrombi, except one, disappeared The child died 25 months later due to resistant cardiac failureread more
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TL;DR: Cardiac transplantation is recommended for children with dilated cardiomyopathy presenting after age 2 years who survive 1 month and those patients less than 2 years old at presentation whose condition has not improved after 1 year and who have persistent cardiomegaly or complex ventricular arrhythmias may also benefit from transplantation.
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Alan B. Lewis,Michelle Chabot +1 more
TL;DR: Early cardiac transplantation should be considered in patients with markedly elevated left ventricular end-diastolic pressure or complex atrial or ventricular arrhythmias, according to a review of 81 infants and children with dilated, poorly contracting left ventricles.
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Lack of correlation between intracavitary thrombosis detected by cross sectional echocardiography and systemic emboli in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.
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TL;DR: The presence of intracavitary thrombosis detected by cross sectional echocardiography is not predictive of systemic embolism in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, and criteria for the use of the anticoagulant treatment remain largely empirical in these cases.