摘要：Every year there are more than 11000 hospitalizations related to heart failure in children resulting in significant morbidity and *** the last two decades,our understanding,diagnosis and management of pediatric heart failure is evolving but our ability to prognosticate outcomes in pediatric heart acute heart failure is extremely limited due to lack of *** adult heart failure patients,the role of cardiac biomarkers has exponentially increased over the last two *** guidelines for management of heart failure emphasize the role of cardiac biomarkers in diagnosis,management and prognostication of heart *** is also noteworthy that these biomarkers reflect important biological processes that also open up the possibility of therapeutic *** is however,a significant gap present in the pediatric population with regards to biomarkers in pediatric heart ***,we seek to review available data regarding cardiac biomarkers in the pediatric population and also explore some of the emerging biomarkers from adult literature that may be pertinent to pediatric heart failure.