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A multidisciplinary approach including prompt delivery and intensive care is crucial for managing peripartum cardiomyopathy complicated by severe preeclampsia and acute kidney injury.
Supports cardiac monitoring in severe preeclampsia; leaves open whether this association warrants routine screening.
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a rare idiopathic cardiac disease occurring in pregnancy and puerperium.Studies have shown that women with preeclampsia have a higher risk of developing peripartum cardiomyopathy.In this report we present a case of a 3 rd trimester pregnancy with severe preeclampsia with acute kidney injury who was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy.Supportive management was done with a multidisciplinary approach.Caesarean section was done, an IUGR but healthy baby was delivered and the patient recovered gradually.
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Das et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Peripartum cardiomyopathy, severe preeclampsia, acute kidney injury (n=1). Multidisciplinary supportive management was evaluated on Clinical recovery and fetal outcome.
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