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Hypertension masquerading as Pediatric Cardiomyopathy: an exercise in cognitive biases.

Heuristics and cognitive biases constantly influence clinical decision-making and often facilitate judgements under uncertainty. They can frequently, however, lead to diagnostic errors and adverse outcomes, particularly when considering rare disease… Click to show full abstract

Heuristics and cognitive biases constantly influence clinical decision-making and often facilitate judgements under uncertainty. They can frequently, however, lead to diagnostic errors and adverse outcomes, particularly when considering rare disease processes that have common, masquerading presentations. Herein, we present two such cases of newborn infants with hypertensive renal disorders that were initially thought to have cardiomyopathy.

Keywords: cognitive biases; masquerading pediatric; pediatric cardiomyopathy; exercise cognitive; cardiomyopathy exercise; hypertension masquerading

Journal Title: Cardiology in the young
Year Published: 2021

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