{"id":14573,"date":"2019-06-17T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=14573"},"modified":"2019-06-16T19:47:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:47:35","slug":"what-is-known-not-known-about-heart-muscle-diseases-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2019\/06\/17\/what-is-known-not-known-about-heart-muscle-diseases-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"What is known, not known about Heart Muscle Diseases in Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-56563\" title=\"American Heart Association\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/American-Heart-Association-new-logo-480x230.jpg\" alt=\"American Heart Association\" width=\"240\" height=\"115\"><strong>Dallas, TX<\/strong> &#8211; A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association focuses on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/health-topics\/cardiomyopathy\/pediatric-cardiomyopathies\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiomyopathies<\/a> (heart muscle diseases) in children&nbsp; and provides insight into the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases as well as identifying future research priorities. It will be published in the American Heart Association\u2019s journal <em>Circulation.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_426850\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heart-Chambers-Graphic.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-426850\" class=\"wp-image-426850 size-medium\" title=\"Cardiomyopathies (heart muscle diseases) in children are the focus of a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association that provides insight into the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases as well as identifying future research priorities. (American Heart Association)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heart-Chambers-Graphic-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Cardiomyopathies (heart muscle diseases) in children are the focus of a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association that provides insight into the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases as well as identifying future research priorities. (American Heart Association)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-426850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cardiomyopathies (heart muscle diseases) in children are the focus of a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association that provides insight into the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases as well as identifying future research priorities. (American Heart Association)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When a child has certain types of cardiomyopathy, their heart is not able to pump blood efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, heart rhythm abnormalities, dizziness, swollen hands and feet or other indications.<\/p>\n<p>Although rare, cardiomyopathies in children can be life threatening and often result in either a child needing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/health-topics\/congenital-heart-defects\/congenital-heart-defects-tools-and-resources\/commonly-asked-questions-about-children-and-heart-disease?s=q%253Dcongenital%252520cardiomyopathy%2526sort%253Drelevancy#heart%20transplant\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heart transplant<\/a> or premature death.<\/p>\n<p>There are many causes of cardiomyopathies including genetic variations that affect basic heart functions, systemic diseases, such as infections, treatments for medical conditions that injure the heart and many others, some of which are not yet understood.<\/p>\n<h3>According to the statement:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly 40% of children who are diagnosed with cardiomyopathies that produce symptoms receive a heart transplant or die within the first two years after diagnosis.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of children with cardiomyopathy who received a heart transplant has not declined over the past 10 years.<\/li>\n<li>Cardiomyopathy remains the leading cause of transplantation for children over one year of age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis statement is designed to give medical professionals an overview of what we currently know about cardiomyopathies in children. Although we are able to provide effective treatments in many cases, research is urgently needed to better understand the causes of the diseases so we can help children with cardiomyopathies live their best lives,\u201d said Steven E. Lipshultz, M.D., the chair of the writing group and the A. Conger Goodyear Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lipshultz is also the Chair of the Medical Advisory Board of the Children\u2019s Cardiomyopathy Foundation, which partners with the American Heart Association on funding pediatric cardiomyopathy research grants.<\/p>\n<p>Co-authors are Yuk M. Law, M.D.; Alfred Asante-Korang, M.D.; Eric D. Austin, M.D.; Anne I. Dipchand, M.D.; Melanie D. Everitt, M.D.; Daphne T. Hsu, M.D.; Kimberly Y. Lin, M.D.; Jack F. Price, M.D.; James D. Wilkinson, M.D. and Steven D. Colan, M.D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/CIR.0000000000000682\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manuscript online.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/health-topics\/congenital-heart-defects\/congenital-heart-defects-tools-and-resources\/commonly-asked-questions-about-children-and-heart-disease?s=q%253Dcongenital%252520cardiomyopathy%2526sort%253Drelevancy\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Commonly Asked Questions About Children and Heart Disease<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/health-topics\/congenital-heart-defects?s=q%253Dcongenital%252520heart%252520defects%2526sort%253Drelevancy\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Congenital Heart Defects<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Follow AHA\/ASA news on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeartNews\" title=\"@HeartNews\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@HeartNews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas, TX &#8211; A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association focuses on Cardiomyopathies (heart muscle diseases) in children&nbsp; and provides insight into the diagnosis and treatment of the diseases as well as identifying future research priorities. It will be published in the American Heart Association\u2019s journal Circulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[2538,11280,6774,4030,6434,6726],"class_list":["post-14573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-american-heart-association","tag-cardiomyopathy","tag-circulation","tag-dallas-tx","tag-heart-muscle","tag-heart-transplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14574,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions\/14574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}