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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Heart Fail Clin. 2010 Oct;6(4):401–413. doi: 10.1016/j.hfc.2010.05.002

List 3.

Specific Aims of the Current PCMR Funding Period: 2005 to 2010

Aim 1 To integrate the PCMR and the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group
(PHTS) databases to examine whether and how cardiac transplantation
modifies the clinical course of cardiomyopathy in children.
Aim 2 To establish the longitudinal course of functional status in children with
cardiomyopathy and to analyze the relationship of functional status to clinical
events and outcomes.
Aim 3 To investigate how genetic and viral markers of cardiomyopathy are
associated with clinical and functional outcomes.