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Did a shared thioredoxin-reductase gene mutation lead to maternal peripartum cardiomyopathy and fatal dilated cardiomyopathy in her son? A case report

Case Reports in Women's Health, 2020
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is characterized by development of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure that occurs towards the end of pregnancy or in the postpartum period in the absence of structural heart disease.
Indranee Rajapreyar, Rachel Sinkey, Salpy V. Pamboukian, Alan Tita   +3 more
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Peripartum cardiomyopathy: a review [PDF]

, 2023
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare type of heart failure manifesting towards the end of pregnancy or in the months following delivery, in the absence of any other cause of heart failure.
Antonio de Marvao, Rajni Bala, Sakshi Mehta, Kaur, Geetika, Bala, Rajni, de Marvao, Antonio; id_orcid, de Marvao, Antonio, Mehta, Sakshi, Roy, Vikas C, Vikas C. Roy, Geetika Kaur   +10 more
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Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome and peripartum cardiomyopathy

Heart Views, 2022
Wolff–Parkinson–White (WPW) is a rare congenital arrhythmia that could result in peripartum cardiomyopathy. This condition could be managed by medical treatments or ablation treatments.
Mehdi Ghaderian, Minoo Movahedi, Mohammad Reza Sabri, Bahar Dehghan, Alireza Ahmadi, Chehreh Mahdavi, Davood Ramezani Nejad, Azadeh Esnaashari   +7 more
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Pregnancy outcome in patients presented with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A five-year study in a tertiary care centre

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022
Background: Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a relatively rare type of dilated cardiomyopathy that presents in late pregnancy or the early postpartum period. Although the condition is prevalent worldwide, women with black genealogy seem to have greater risk.
Lipika Adhikari , Sandip Sarkar
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The role of melatonin in peripartum cardiomyopathy [PDF]

, 2013
Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a heart disease of unknown aetiology emerging in previously healthy women towards the end of pregnancy or first postpartum months.
Nicholson, Lauren
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Physiological Reduction in Left Ventricular Contractile Function in Healthy Postpartum Women: Potential Overlap with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a potentially life-threatening cause of heart failure, commoner in Afro-Caribbean than Caucasian women. Its diagnosis can be challenging due to physiological changes in cardiac function that also occur in healthy women during
Sitara G Khan, Narbeh Melikian, Sitali Mushemi-Blake, William Dennes, Fadi Jouhra, Mark Monaghan, Ajay M Shah   +6 more
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Pre-pregnancy Obesity and the Risk of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy [PDF]

, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the contribution of pre-pregnancy obesity and overweight to peripartum cardiomyopathy. STUDY DESIGN: This population-based study used linked birth record and maternal hospital discharge data from live ...
Hameed, Afshan B., Carmichael, Suzan L., Leonard, Stephanie A, Main, Elliott K, Abrams, Barbara, Carmichael, Suzan L, Cho, Seo-Ho, Leonard, Stephanie A., Lyndon, Audrey, Main, Elliott K., Hameed, Afshan B   +10 more
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Bromocriptine treatment associated with recovery from peripartum cardiomyopathy in siblings: two case reports

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2010
Introduction Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare form of cardiomyopathy, with heterogeneous presentation occurring in women between one-month antepartum and six months postpartum. It carries a poor prognosis and a high risk of mortality.
Drexler Helmut, Sliwa Karen, Podewski Edith, Labidi Saida, Meyer Gerd, Hilfiker-Kleiner Denise   +5 more
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Cardiac arrest during emergency cesarean section for severe pre-eclampsia and peripartum cardiomyopathy

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2016
Objective: To present the correlation between severe pre-eclampsia and peripartum cardiomyopathy in pregnancy. Case report: A 41-year-old parturient, gravida 3, para 1, at 34 4/7 weeks' gestation, was diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia.
Meng-Han Chou, Hsin-Hui Huang, Yu-Ju Lai, Kwei-Shuai Hwang, Yu-Chi Wang, Her-Young Su   +5 more
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Peripartum Cardiomyopathy.

Japanese Heart Journal, 1992
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a relatively rare complication of pregnancy, characterized by heart failure of obscure etiology during the antepartal or postpartal period. During a 10-year period in our hospital, of 36,882 women who delivered, 6 were diagnosed as having peripartum cardiomyopathy.
HSIEH, Ching-Chang, CHIANG, Cheng-Wen, HSIEH, T'sang-T'ang, SOONG, Yung-Kwei   +3 more
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