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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: An Intriguing Challenge. Case Report with Literature Review

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a relatively rare disease, which can have devasting consequences and should be promptly identified and correctly treated. Overall prognosis is good in majority of the cases, although some patients may progress to irreversible heart failure. Early diagnosis is important a...

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Autores principales: Cemin, Roberto, Janardhanan, Rajesh, Daves, Massimo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21037843
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340309789317896
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description Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a relatively rare disease, which can have devasting consequences and should be promptly identified and correctly treated. Overall prognosis is good in majority of the cases, although some patients may progress to irreversible heart failure. Early diagnosis is important and effective treatment reduces mortality rates and increases the chance of complete recovery of ventricular systolic function. We report of an interesting case with a favourable outcome and discuss about the clinical presentation, therapy and outcome of this condition.
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spelling pubmed-28429582010-11-01 Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: An Intriguing Challenge. Case Report with Literature Review Cemin, Roberto Janardhanan, Rajesh Daves, Massimo Curr Cardiol Rev Article Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a relatively rare disease, which can have devasting consequences and should be promptly identified and correctly treated. Overall prognosis is good in majority of the cases, although some patients may progress to irreversible heart failure. Early diagnosis is important and effective treatment reduces mortality rates and increases the chance of complete recovery of ventricular systolic function. We report of an interesting case with a favourable outcome and discuss about the clinical presentation, therapy and outcome of this condition. Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 2009-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2842958/ /pubmed/21037843 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340309789317896 Text en © 2009 Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/), which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: An Intriguing Challenge. Case Report with Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: An Intriguing Challenge. Case Report with Literature Review
title_short Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: An Intriguing Challenge. Case Report with Literature Review
title_sort peripartum cardiomyopathy: an intriguing challenge. case report with literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21037843
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157340309789317896
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