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Record W2138744657 · doi:10.1093/pch/6.8.543

Myocarditis in infants and children: A review for the paediatrician

2001· review· en· W2138744657 on OpenAlexaff
Adrian Dancea

Bibliographic record

VenuePaediatrics & Child Health · 2001
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicViral Infections and Immunology Research
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityMontreal Children's Hospital
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineMyocarditisViral MyocarditisTachycardiaCardiologyInternal medicineInotropeAuscultationPediatricsIntensive care medicine

Abstract

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Clinical myocarditis is uncommon in infants and children. The most common pathogen is Coxsackievirus B. The offending agent triggers an immune response, which results in myocardial edema with subsequent impairment of systolic and diastolic function. Newborns and infants are more severely affected because the immature myocardium has limited ways of adapting to an acute insult. Children typically present with sinus tachycardia and gallop on auscultation, cardiomegaly on chest x-ray and small voltages on electrocardiogram. The echocardiogram shows reduced ventricular function. Viral studies can isolate the pathogen. Myocardial biopsy is useful diagnostically, but carries a significant risk for the sick infant. The first line of treatment includes measures such as rest, oxygen and diuretics. Inotropic agents are useful in moderate to severe heart failure. The role of immunosuppressive therapy is not yet clearly established in the paediatric age group. Prognosis is guarded in newborns but more favourable in older children.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.955
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.391
Teacher spread0.345 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2001
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