Physiological Reduction in Left Ventricular Contractile Function in Healthy Postpartum Women: Potential Overlap with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

AIMS: Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a potentially life-threatening cause of heart failure, commoner in Afro-Caribbean than Caucasian women. Its diagnosis can be challenging due to physiological changes in cardiac function that also occur in healthy women during the early postpartum period. This study...

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Autores principales: Khan, Sitara G., Melikian, Narbeh, Mushemi-Blake, Sitali, Dennes, William, Jouhra, Fadi, Monaghan, Mark, Shah, Ajay M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4747599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26859567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147074

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