Peripartum cardiomyopathy with recovery in a patient with coincidental Eisenmenger ventricular septal defect.
Severe pulmonary vascular disease was found during pregnancy in a 31 year old woman with a large ventricular septal defect. Three months after delivery peripartum cardiomyopathy with severe biventricular failure developed. This was a chance association. Recovery of ventricular function was slow but was complete two years later. There was no advance in the pulmonary vascular disease.
Oakley
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Department of Medicine (Clinical Cardiology), Hammersmith Hospital, London.
Nihoyannopoulos
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D000328:Adult; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004541:Eisenmenger Complex / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D011859:Radiography