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Pediatric Patients Hospitalized with Myocarditis: A Multi-Institutional Analysis
Pediatric Cardiology, 11/30/09
Klugman D et al. – Pediatric patients with myocarditis have considerable variability in their presentations and outcomes, use more resources, and die more often than children with other diagnoses. Attempts at using characteristics that uniformly predict illness severity or survival were not successful. Despite increased use in the sickest patients, IVIG conferred no survival advantage.
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