This case highlights a rare presentation of peripartum cardiomyopathy occurring during the prepartum period, complicated by severe pre-eclampsia and acute kidney injury.
May warrant considering PPCM in antenatal pre-eclampsia with AKI; leaves open need for prospective studies.
We report a case of peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), which presented with antenatal pre-eclampsia complicated by acute kidney injury (AKI). A 25-year-old patient in her 27th week of gestation presented with high blood pressure. She was later diagnosed with PPCM, which was complicated by AKI. Our case report indicated PPCM presentation during the prepartum period, which is a rare entity. On her fifth day of admission, our patient had spontaneous expulsion of her neonate, who was found to be dead on antenatal ultrasound.
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