Dyspnoea at Term in an Obese Mother

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a serious, potentially life-threatening heart disease of uncertain aetiology in previously healthy women. We report a morbidly obese woman who presented with peripartum shortness of breath. We discuss the differential diagnosis of dyspnoea in pregnancy and highlight the...

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Autores principales: O'Dwyer, Vicky, O'Brien, Yvonne, Farah, Nadine, Turner, Michael J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/317376
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author O'Dwyer, Vicky
O'Brien, Yvonne
Farah, Nadine
Turner, Michael J.
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description Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a serious, potentially life-threatening heart disease of uncertain aetiology in previously healthy women. We report a morbidly obese woman who presented with peripartum shortness of breath. We discuss the differential diagnosis of dyspnoea in pregnancy and highlight the complexity of care of the morbidly obese woman.
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spelling pubmed-33356562012-05-07 Dyspnoea at Term in an Obese Mother O'Dwyer, Vicky O'Brien, Yvonne Farah, Nadine Turner, Michael J. Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a serious, potentially life-threatening heart disease of uncertain aetiology in previously healthy women. We report a morbidly obese woman who presented with peripartum shortness of breath. We discuss the differential diagnosis of dyspnoea in pregnancy and highlight the complexity of care of the morbidly obese woman. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3335656/ /pubmed/22567503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/317376 Text en Copyright © 2011 Vicky O'Dwyer et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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O'Dwyer, Vicky
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Dyspnoea at Term in an Obese Mother
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title_short Dyspnoea at Term in an Obese Mother
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3335656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22567503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/317376
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