Challenges in the diagnosis of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a case series.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is usually characterized by overt heart failure, but other clinical scenarios are possible, sometimes making the diagnosis challenging.

Case summary

We report a case series of four patients with PPCM. The first patient presented with acute heart failure due to left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction. Following medical treatment, LV function recovered completely at 1 month. The second patient had systemic and pulmonary thromboembolism, secondary to severe biventricular dysfunction with biventricular thrombi. The third patient presented with myocardial infarction with non-obstructed coronary arteries and evidence of an aneurysm of the mid-anterolateral LV wall. The fourth patient, diagnosed with PPCM 11 years earlier, presented wi

SUBMITTER: Chirillo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7954255 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature