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Case report describes peripartum cardiomyopathy triggering cardiac arrest in a woman presenting with dyspnea.
Case Report (n=1)
Highlights that peripartum cardiomyopathy can present acutely with cardiac arrest, emphasizing the need for clinical suspicion in peripartum women with dyspnea.
Peripartum cardiomyopathy may cause arrest in dyspneic women; this Level 5 case leaves open incidence and screening needs.
Many women experience dyspnoea, orthopnoea, and peripheral oedema during pregnancy, and diagnosing cardiac problem is confounded by these signs and symptoms of normal pregnancy. Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare life‐threatening cardiomyopathy of unknown aetiology that occurs between the last month of pregnancy and the first 5 months postpartum in previously healthy woman. Multiparity, twins, advanced maternal age, preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and black race are known risk factors. The course of PPCM can range from readily treatable to acutely fatal. We present a lady with dyspnoea in the peripartum period admitted in cardiac arrest as a result of PPCM.
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Yun et al. (2010) conducted a case report in Peripartum cardiomyopathy and cardiac arrest (n=1). Peripartum cardiomyopathy was evaluated on Cardiac arrest. A woman in the peripartum period presented with dyspnoea and suffered a cardiac arrest as a result of peripartum cardiomyopathy.
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