Practical management of peripartum cardiomyopathy
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Practical management of peripartum cardiomyopathy
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is an idiopathic cardiomyopathy that causes systolic heart failure (HF) in previously healthy young women. Despite latest remarkable achievement, unifying pathophysiologic mechanism is not well established. Considering close temporal relationship to pregnancy, the recent prolactin theory is promising. Abnormal short form of 16-kDa prolactin may be produced in th...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1226-3303,2005-6648
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2016.360