Advances in Pediatric Heart Failure: Congenital Heart Disease and Cardiomyopathies
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2396
Special Issue Editors
Interests: congenital heart disease (CHD); cardiomyopathies; adult CHD
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Interests: clinical and molecular basis of cardiomyopathies; metabolic pathways involved in cardiomyopathies; innovation in pharmacological treatment and clinical trials in patients with inherited heart diseases
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Interests: inherited cardiac conditions; cardiomyopathy; cardiovascular genetics; sudden cardiac death
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, we have witnessed extraordinary progress both in the field of congenital heart diseases and of cardiomyopathies. These advancements are largely driven by early cardiac surgery and interventional procedures, currently performed in very young patients, as well as tremendous improvement in diagnostic tools, from advanced imaging to genetics. Nevertheless, heart failure in children and adolescents remains largely uncharted territory in cardiovascular medicine. Research initiatives in pediatric cohorts are limited, and management is often based on ‘adaptation’ of adult guidelines. An age-specific and evidence-based approach is sorely needed. A more comprehensive approach to the problems will require multidisciplinary, concerted efforts, uniting the two most prominent areas: congenital heart disease and genetic cardiomyopathies.
The international symposium, “Advances in Pediatric Heart Failure: Congenital Disease and Cardiomyopathies”, is scheduled to take place in Florence in April 2023. It is supported by an unrestricted grant by Fondazione Menarini (as was the case for the previous edition in 2018) and aims to discuss the state-of-the-art management in children and adolescents with heart failure, bringing together an international faculty of experts in both fields.
The issue will collect a selection of reviews from the participants, combining these two different but complementary perspectives, as anticipated by the title. We hope that the synergy of such rich and diverse areas of expertise will help advance the field and improve the outlook of our youngest patients.
Dr. Silvia Favilli
Prof. Dr. Iacopo Olivotto
Dr. Juan Pablo Kaski
Dr. Alberto Zanobini
Guest Editors
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