RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Péripartum cardiomyopathy: Causes, diagnosis, and treatment
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 289
OP 296
DO 10.3949/ccjm.76a.08004
VO 76
IS 5
A1 Radhakrishnan Ramaraj
A1 Vincent L. Sorrell
YR 2009
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/5/289.abstract
AB Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a life-threatening condition of unknown cause that occurs in previously healthy women during the peripartum period. It is characterized by left ventricular dysfunction and symptoms of heart failure that can arise in the last trimester of pregnancy or up to 5 months after delivery. We review its possible causes and how to recognize and manage it.