Peripartum Cardiomyopathy with Heart Failure Persisting Beyond Ten Months Post-Partum: A Rare Case Report in Awka, Nigeria
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Congestive heart failure in pregnancy: a case of peripartum cardiomyopathy.
A healthy 28-year-old woman developed full-blown pulmonary oedema in the 36th week of gestation. Echocardiography revealed a globally enlarged heart with reduced systolic function. A remarkable dinical response with regain of normal ventricular function was noted with early medical intervention. This case report illustrates peripartum cardiomyopathy, a unique form of dilated cardiomyopathy affe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Family Medicine and Health Care
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2469-8326
DOI: 10.11648/j.jfmhc.20160204.21