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Dilated cardiomyopathy in isolated congenital complete atrioventricular block: early and long-term risk in children

Floris E. A. Udink ten Cate, MD^*, Johannes M. P. J. Breur, MD^*, Mitchell I. Cohen, MD, FACC, Nicole Boramanand, CPNP, Livia Kapusta, MD, Jane E. Crosson, MD, FACC^||, Joel I. Brenner, MD, FACC^||, Louise J. Lubbers, MD^¶, Alan H. Friedman, MD, FACC, Victoria L. Vetter, MD, FACC and Erik J. Meijboom, MD, PhD, FACC^*

^* Pediatric Heart Center of the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
University Medical Center St. Radboud, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
^|| Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
^¶ Amsterdam Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

View larger version (8K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier curve presenting freedom from developing dilated cardiomyopathy in the years after the initial diagnosis of congenital complete atrioventricular block.

View larger version (12K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Shortening fraction (SF) of nine patients in the first 12 months after presenting with dilated cardiomyopathy. Bold horizontal line = average and range at given times.