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A 29-year-old woman developed stress-induced cardiomyopathy presenting with ventricular fibrillation 10 days postpartum, with complete resolution of left ventricular wall motion abnormalities after 2 weeks.
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Stress-induced cardiomyopathy, typically seen in older women, can also occur in young women during the postpartum period.
Postpartum VF may signal reversible stress cardiomyopathy; case report extends demographics but leaves open incidence and management.
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy is a relatively rare, unique entity that has only recently been widely appreciated. It characterized by transient left ventricular regional wall motion abnormalities (with a peculiar apical ballooning appearance), chest pain or dyspnea, ST-segment elevation and/or T wave inversion and minor elevations of the cardiac enzyme levels. The patients in the previous series were usually women over 50 years of age and a triggering event was identified in most cases; these included severe emotional distress or an acute medical illness. Although reports of single episodes of stress-induced cardiomyopathy are not infrequent in the recent medical literature, we report here on a case of stress-induced cardiomyopathy in a young women, and this was related with the postpartum period as a stressful condition. (Korean Circulation J 2007;37:388-392)
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Jeon et al. (2007) conducted a case report in Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (n=1). Postpartum period was evaluated on Resolution of wall motion abnormalities. A 29-year-old woman developed stress-induced cardiomyopathy presenting with ventricular fibrillation 10 days postpartum, with complete resolution of left ventricular wall motion abnormalities after 2 weeks.
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