Anesthetic management for caesarean section in a case of peripartum cardiomyopathy

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a disease of unknown etiology which affects pregnant females during late pregnancy or during the first 5 months post-partum. The clinical presentation of these patients is similar to that of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Anesthetic management of such cases...

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Autores principales: Dutt, Akanksha, Agarwal, Akshi, Chatterji, Rama, Ahmed, Farid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25885847
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.118978
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author Dutt, Akanksha
Agarwal, Akshi
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description Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a disease of unknown etiology which affects pregnant females during late pregnancy or during the first 5 months post-partum. The clinical presentation of these patients is similar to that of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Anesthetic management of such cases poses a challenge; due to the increased risk of various perioperative complications. We report the successful anesthetic management of lower segment caesarean section in a patient with PPCM.
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spelling pubmed-41735092014-10-22 Anesthetic management for caesarean section in a case of peripartum cardiomyopathy Dutt, Akanksha Agarwal, Akshi Chatterji, Rama Ahmed, Farid Anesth Essays Res Case Report Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a disease of unknown etiology which affects pregnant females during late pregnancy or during the first 5 months post-partum. The clinical presentation of these patients is similar to that of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Anesthetic management of such cases poses a challenge; due to the increased risk of various perioperative complications. We report the successful anesthetic management of lower segment caesarean section in a patient with PPCM. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC4173509/ /pubmed/25885847 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.118978 Text en Copyright: © Anesthesia: Essays and Researches http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Anesthetic management for caesarean section in a case of peripartum cardiomyopathy
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title_short Anesthetic management for caesarean section in a case of peripartum cardiomyopathy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4173509/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0259-1162.118978
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