Cardiac preload responsiveness in children with cardiovascular dysfunction or dilated cardiomyopathy: a multicenter observational study.

Objectives: To characterize cardiac preload responsiveness in pediatric patients with cardiovascular dysfunction and dilated cardiomyopathy using global end-diastolic volume index, stroke volume index, cardiac index, and extravascular lung water index.

Design: Prospective multicenter observational study.

Setting: Medical/surgical PICUs of seven Spanish University Medical Centers.

Ventricular assist device as a bridge to transplant, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for primary graft failure in a child with hemophilia A.

Objective: To report the management of hemophilia in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy during application of the Berlin-Heart biventricular assist.

Design: Case report.

Interventions And Results: The Berlin-Heart biventricular assist was successfully used as a bridge to heart transplantation (178 days) in a child with hemophilia A; post-transplant extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was implanted until the patient recovered from primary graft failure.