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SUBMITTER: Kharwar RB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4192412 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kharwar Rajiv Bharat RB Chandra Sharad S Dwivedi Sudhanshu Kumar SK Saran Ram Kirti RK
Journal of cardiovascular ultrasound 20140929 3
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a cardiac condition characterized by development of heart failure during the last month of pregnancy or during the first five months of post partum period without any other identifiable cause of heart failure. The hypercoagulable state in the pregnancy along with left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction predisposes the patient to thromboembolic complications like intraventricular thrombi. We report a case of a 30-year-old female with peripartum cardiomyopathy along ...[more]