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Life‐threatening peripartum cardiomyopathy—Not expected when expecting

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is challenging to diagnose as it mimics symptoms present in normal pregnancy. The clinical course and prognosis are various. In selected cases, a cardioverter implantable defibrillator with/without cardiac resynchronization therapy, mechanical ventricular assist device trea...

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Autores principales: Magnusson, Peter, Kihlström, Gabriella, Wallhagen, Marita, Rambaree, Komalsingh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6553344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2158
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author Magnusson, Peter
Kihlström, Gabriella
Wallhagen, Marita
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description Peripartum cardiomyopathy is challenging to diagnose as it mimics symptoms present in normal pregnancy. The clinical course and prognosis are various. In selected cases, a cardioverter implantable defibrillator with/without cardiac resynchronization therapy, mechanical ventricular assist device treatment, and transplantation is indicated.
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spelling pubmed-65533442019-06-10 Life‐threatening peripartum cardiomyopathy—Not expected when expecting Magnusson, Peter Kihlström, Gabriella Wallhagen, Marita Rambaree, Komalsingh Clin Case Rep Case Reports Peripartum cardiomyopathy is challenging to diagnose as it mimics symptoms present in normal pregnancy. The clinical course and prognosis are various. In selected cases, a cardioverter implantable defibrillator with/without cardiac resynchronization therapy, mechanical ventricular assist device treatment, and transplantation is indicated. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6553344/ /pubmed/31183081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2158 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Life‐threatening peripartum cardiomyopathy—Not expected when expecting
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6553344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183081
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2158
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