TY - JOUR AU - Bansal, Neha AU - Barach, Paul AU - Amdani, Shahnawaz M. AU - Lipshultz, Steven E. PY - 2018 TI - When is early septal myectomy in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy justified? JF - Translational Pediatrics; Vol 7, No 4 (October 16, 2018): Translational Pediatrics (The Pediatric Critical Care Continuum—Inside and Outside the Four Walls of the ICU) Y2 - 2018 KW - N2 - Pediatric cardiomyopathy is a debilitating disease that leads to pump failure and sudden death; in fact, it is the leading cause of heart failure in children (1). Cardiomyopathy and heart failure in infants and children remain serious population health crises for children and their families and confer a great cost burden on society (2-5). In the United States, the estimated annual incidence of congenital cardiovascular malformations or cardiomyopathy in infants, children, and adolescents less than 19 years old is between 12,000 and 35,000 (6). UR - https://tp.amegroups.org/article/view/21315