Reversible cushing dilated cardiomyopathy mimicking peripartum cardiomyopathy with successful subsequent pregnancy.
A 29-year-old lady G4P3A0 has been admitted in her last trimester with features of peripartum cardiomyopathy. She was treated accordingly with comprehensive antifailure therapy. She lost follow-up but reappeared 12 weeks later with further deterioration of her heart failure, severe depression and osteoporotic multiple lumbar fractures. She turned to be having Cushing syndrome secondary to adrenal adenoma. Post adrenalectomy all her symptoms subsided and her cardiac function fully recovered as shown by stress echocardiography. She reconceived with uneventful pregnancy and delivery.
Medical Department, Salmaniya Medical Complex, Manama, Bahrain. abdullarashed@yahoo.com
Rashed
R
Al Banna
Aysha
A
Husain
Jalila
J
Al Aali
Khalid
K
Ebrahim
Abdulaziz
A
Mohammed
D000328:Adult; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003480:Cushing Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome