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Filter by:Dilated cardiomyopathy is a heart muscle disorder characterized by systolic dysfunction and dilation of the left or both ventricles.Dilated cardiomyopathy can develop in people of any age or ethnicity, although it is more common in male than female persons occurring at a ratio of about three to one in male to female persons. Dilated cardiomyopathy is the predominant cause of cardiomyopathy in pediatric populations. Annual incidence in pediatric populations has been reported to be much lower than one to one hundred seventy thousand in the United States and one to one hundred forty thousand in Australia. Although pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy has a lower annual incidence than adult dilated cardiomyopathy, the outcome for pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy patients is particularly severe. Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most frequent cause of heart transplantation in pediatric patients. Data from international pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy registries indicate that the rates of death or heart transplantation over one and five year periods were thirty one percent and forty six percent, respectively. Onset of dilated cardiomyopathy is usually insidious but may be acute in as many at twenty five percent of patients. Approximately fifty percent of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy have a history of preceding viral illness.