Beta-Blockers in Pediatric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathies

Congestive cardiac failure accounts for 36% of childhood deaths in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and in infants with heart failure symptoms before two years of age, the mortality is extremely high unless treatment with beta-receptor antagonists is instituted. The mechanism of heart failure is not sys...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Östman-Smith, Ingegerd
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Bentham Science Publishers 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4443781/