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April 1, 1954Annals of Internal Medicine

"Post Partal" Heart Disease—a Syndrome?

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Population

2 women developing heart failure abruptly during the last month of pregnancy or within a few weeks following…

Design

Case_report

Authors

FBF.A. BashourThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterPWPaul WinchellKintama (Canada)

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Overview

Raises suspicion for peripartum cardiomyopathy; hypothesis-generating and leaves open need for prospective studies on incidence and management.

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Population
2 women developing heart failure abruptly during the last month of pregnancy or within a few weeks following delivery, in the absence of any known pre-existing cardiac lesion.

This early case report describes two cases of what is now known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, highlighting acute diffuse myocardial disease associated with pregnancy.

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Bashour et al. (1954) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a74f71c1646b2abe50346e7https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-40-4-803
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