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Prevalence, Morbidity, and Mortality of Heart Failure–Related Hospitalizations in Children in the United States: A Population-Based Study

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Heart failure-related hospitalizations occur in 11,000-14,000 children annually in the United States, with an overall mortality of 7%.
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Preterm Birth and Risk of Heart Failure Up to Early Adulthood

TL;DR: There was a strong association between preterm birth before 32 weeks of gestation and HF in childhood and young adulthood, and this findings indicate that pre term birth may be a previously unknown risk factor for HF.
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Presentation, diagnosis, and medical management of heart failure in children: Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present guidelines for the recognition, diagnosis, and early medical management of pediatric heart failure in infancy, childhood, and adolescence, which are intended to assist practitioners in office-based or emergency room practice, who encounter children with undiagnosed heart disease and symptoms of possible HF.
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Physiological Stress Elicits Impaired Left Ventricular Function in Preterm-Born Adults

TL;DR: Preterm-born young adults had impaired LV response to physiological stress when subjected to physical exercise, which suggested a reduced myocardial functional reserve that might help explain their increased risk of early heart failure.
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Heart Failure in Pediatric Patients With Congenital Heart Disease.

TL;DR: The objective of this review is to provide a framework for understanding rapidly increasing genetic and molecular information in the challenging context of detailed phenotyping.
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Risk Stratification for In-Hospital Mortality in Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure: Classification and Regression Tree Analysis

TL;DR: The results suggest that ADHF patients at low, intermediate, and high risk for in-hospital mortality can be easily identified using vital sign and laboratory data obtained on hospital admission and provides clinicians with a validated, practical bedside tool for mortality risk stratification.
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Congenital heart disease: prevalence at livebirth the baltimore-washington infant study

TL;DR: The Baltimore-Washington Infant Study is a regional epidemiologic study of congenital heart disease and the data of the New England Infant Cardiac Program showed similar occurrences of major morphologic abnormalities, suggesting that these are stable basic estimates in the eastern United States.
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