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Pankaj Gupta, Munesh Tomar, Sitaraman Radhakrishnan, Savitri Shrivastava
Department of Pediatrics and Congenital Heart Surgery, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, India
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Pankaj Gupta
Department of Pediatrics and Congenital Heart Surgery, Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre, Okhla Road, New Delhi - 110 025
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-2069.84655
Hypocalcemia is a less known but treatable cause for dilated cardiomyopathy, leading to severe heart failure in children. Cardiogenic shock related to hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy is a rare event. We describe 5 infants presenting with cardiogenic shock over 3 years, who were found to have severe hypocalcemia as a sole cause of myocardial dysfunction. The patients responded to calcium and vitamin D supplementation promptly and left ventricular systolic function normalized within months of treatment. In any case of cardiogenic shock, hypocalcemia should be included in the differential diagnosis and must be investigated.
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