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Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy presenting as cardiogenic shock

Hypocalcemia is a less known but treatable cause for dilated cardiomyopathy, leading to severe heart failure in children. Cardiogenic shock related to hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy is a rare event. We describe 5 infants presenting with cardiogenic shock over 3 years, who were found to have severe hypo...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Pankaj, Tomar, Munesh, Radhakrishnan, Sitaraman, Shrivastava, Savitri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21976876
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.84655
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author Gupta, Pankaj
Tomar, Munesh
Radhakrishnan, Sitaraman
Shrivastava, Savitri
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description Hypocalcemia is a less known but treatable cause for dilated cardiomyopathy, leading to severe heart failure in children. Cardiogenic shock related to hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy is a rare event. We describe 5 infants presenting with cardiogenic shock over 3 years, who were found to have severe hypocalcemia as a sole cause of myocardial dysfunction. The patients responded to calcium and vitamin D supplementation promptly and left ventricular systolic function normalized within months of treatment. In any case of cardiogenic shock, hypocalcemia should be included in the differential diagnosis and must be investigated.
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spelling pubmed-31809742011-10-04 Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy presenting as cardiogenic shock Gupta, Pankaj Tomar, Munesh Radhakrishnan, Sitaraman Shrivastava, Savitri Ann Pediatr Cardiol Brief Communication Hypocalcemia is a less known but treatable cause for dilated cardiomyopathy, leading to severe heart failure in children. Cardiogenic shock related to hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy is a rare event. We describe 5 infants presenting with cardiogenic shock over 3 years, who were found to have severe hypocalcemia as a sole cause of myocardial dysfunction. The patients responded to calcium and vitamin D supplementation promptly and left ventricular systolic function normalized within months of treatment. In any case of cardiogenic shock, hypocalcemia should be included in the differential diagnosis and must be investigated. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3180974/ /pubmed/21976876 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.84655 Text en © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gupta, Pankaj
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title_full Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy presenting as cardiogenic shock
title_fullStr Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy presenting as cardiogenic shock
title_full_unstemmed Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy presenting as cardiogenic shock
title_short Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy presenting as cardiogenic shock
title_sort hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy presenting as cardiogenic shock
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21976876
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.84655
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