Key result
Review outlines current evidence on etiology, pathophysiology, risk factors, and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy.
Why the study?
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is often recognized late and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality despite increased awareness from registries.
This review provides an update on the definition, etiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, prognostic factors, and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy.
Late PPCM recognition persists with high morbidity; leaves open need for targeted early-detection strategies in peripartum care.
Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a type of heart failure due to systolic dysfunction which affects childbearing women during pregnancy or in early postpartum period. Some patients have relatively mild disease while others experience significant morbidity and mortality . Although awareness about this disease has increased in last few decades based on many national and international registries (1,2), PPCM is often recognized late and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality rates(3). Initially described as postpartum cardiomyopathy by Ritchie etal (4), the disease few years (5) later was recognized as peripartum cardiomyopathy. In this review we will describe its definition, etiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, prognostic factors and management
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Rashid et al. (2022) conducted a review in Peripartum cardiomyopathy. This review describes the definition, etiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, prognostic factors, and management of peripartum cardiomyopathy.
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