Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy: One Patient With Two Zebras

Peripartum cardiomyopathy and triplet pregnancy

Peripartum cardiomyopathy in a patient with hyperprolactinaemia.

The clinical course of a patient with peripartum cardiomyopathy and hyperprolactinaemia is described. Hyperprolactinaemia may be a factor in this patient's heart failure.

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: a report of two cases.

In the past two years, two women with acute fatty liver of pregnancy have presented at this hospital. Both patients survived, but their babies died; published rates for both mother and fetus are up to 85% mortality with this condition. Both patients presented with symptoms and signs of impending hepatic failure including jaundice, elevated aminotransferases, leukocytosis, hepatic encephalopathy...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy in a patient treated for acute myeloid leukemia.

INTRODUCTION Peripartum cardiomyopathy usually presents with systolic heart failure during the last months of pregnancy and up to five months postpartum. The disease is rare and can be fatal. CASE OUTLINE We report a 30-year-old female who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, with maturation and cytogenetic finding of t(8;21)(q22;q22),del(9)(q22) in January 2004. She was treated with ch...

peripartum cardiomyopathy in a triplet pregnancy

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare form of dilated cardiomyopathy that occurs in previously healthy women in the last month of pregnancy and up to several months after delivery. The incidence of PPCM is low, but its morbidity and mortality rate are high, with a substantial risk of poor outcome of the pregnancy. Patients who have recovered from PPCM run a high risk of reoccurrence in sub...