Title

Clinical, Echocardiography, biochemical and MRI findings in patients with acute left ventricular dysfunction to evaluate short-term outcome - A retrospective study

Authors

Deen Dayal Nagar¹, Varsha Shrivastava^2,* & Yamini Batham³

Affiliation

¹Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Sawai Man Singh Medical College and J K Lone Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; ²Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India; ³Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Sri Satya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital, Palwal, Haryana, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Deen Dayal Nagar - E-mail: ddnagar007@gmail.com
Varsha Shrivastava - E-mail: drvark1991@gmail.com
Yamini Batham - E-mail: dryaminibatham@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 1, 2025; Revised October 31, 2025; Accepted October 31, 2025, Published October 31, 2025

Abstract

Heart failure in children is rare, but it strikes younger children at a younger age. Caregivers need training owing to the increased risk of death and the clinical presentation differs from that of adults. In order to forecast the early results in individuals with acute left ventricular dysfunction, it is necessary to assess several clinical, echocardiographic, biochemical and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results. The research took place in New Delhi at the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute's Department of Paediatric Cardiology. The research recruited 60 instances of severe acute LV dysfunction in children and adolescents (aged 1 month to 18 years) using a retrospective approach. Older age at admission, children with low LVEF on admission, requirement of ionotropic support on admission, Intracardiac thrombus on echocardiography evaluation and longer hospital stay were poor predictors of short-term outcome.

Keywords

Cardiomyopathy, LV dysfunction, LV Ejection Fraction, Congenital heart diseases, 2D-ECHO, Cardiac MRI

Citation

Nagar et al. Bioinformation 21(10): 3899-3904 (2025)

Edited by

Vini Mehta

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.