An Unusual Cause of Postpartum Heart Failure

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a weakness of the heart muscle. It is an idiopathic cardiomyopathy that presents with heart failure secondary to left ventricular systolic dysfunction toward the end of pregnancy or in the months after delivery, in the absence of any other cause of heart failure. It is a...

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Autores principales: Khaddash, Ibrahim, Hawatmeh, Amer, Altheeb, Zaid, Hamdan, Aiman, Shamoon, Fayez
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28074806
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9784.197846
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author Khaddash, Ibrahim
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description Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a weakness of the heart muscle. It is an idiopathic cardiomyopathy that presents with heart failure secondary to left ventricular systolic dysfunction toward the end of pregnancy or in the months after delivery, in the absence of any other cause of heart failure. It is a rare condition that can carry mild or severe symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-52906782017-02-17 An Unusual Cause of Postpartum Heart Failure Khaddash, Ibrahim Hawatmeh, Amer Altheeb, Zaid Hamdan, Aiman Shamoon, Fayez Ann Card Anaesth Interesting Images Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a weakness of the heart muscle. It is an idiopathic cardiomyopathy that presents with heart failure secondary to left ventricular systolic dysfunction toward the end of pregnancy or in the months after delivery, in the absence of any other cause of heart failure. It is a rare condition that can carry mild or severe symptoms. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5290678/ /pubmed/28074806 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9784.197846 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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