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Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report
BACKGROUND: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare cardiac disorder characterized by the development of heart failure in the last month of pregnancy or up to 5 months postpartum in women without other identifiable causes of cardiac failure. The combination of left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23031314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-544 |
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author | Altuwaijri, Wafa A Kirkpatrick, Iain DC Jassal, Davinder S Soni, Anita |
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description | BACKGROUND: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare cardiac disorder characterized by the development of heart failure in the last month of pregnancy or up to 5 months postpartum in women without other identifiable causes of cardiac failure. The combination of left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and hypercoaguability can cause thromboembolic complications including intra-cardiac thrombi. CASE PRESENTATION: A 25-year-old Caucasian female with PPCM demonstrated multiple thrombi in the LV on transthoracic echocardiography. Following anticoagulation with parenteral heparin, a cardiac MRI four days later demonstrated near resolution of the thrombi. CONCLUSION: We review the presentation, diagnosis and management of LV thrombi in the clinical setting of PPCM. |
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spelling | pubmed-35516962013-01-24 Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report Altuwaijri, Wafa A Kirkpatrick, Iain DC Jassal, Davinder S Soni, Anita BMC Res Notes Case Report BACKGROUND: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare cardiac disorder characterized by the development of heart failure in the last month of pregnancy or up to 5 months postpartum in women without other identifiable causes of cardiac failure. The combination of left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction and hypercoaguability can cause thromboembolic complications including intra-cardiac thrombi. CASE PRESENTATION: A 25-year-old Caucasian female with PPCM demonstrated multiple thrombi in the LV on transthoracic echocardiography. Following anticoagulation with parenteral heparin, a cardiac MRI four days later demonstrated near resolution of the thrombi. CONCLUSION: We review the presentation, diagnosis and management of LV thrombi in the clinical setting of PPCM. BioMed Central 2012-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3551696/ /pubmed/23031314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-544 Text en Copyright ©2012 Altuwaijri et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Altuwaijri, Wafa A Kirkpatrick, Iain DC Jassal, Davinder S Soni, Anita Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report |
title | Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report |
title_full | Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report |
title_fullStr | Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report |
title_short | Vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report |
title_sort | vanishing left ventricular thrombus in a woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23031314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-544 |
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