Vol 70, No 10 (2012)
Case studies
Published online: 2012-10-19

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Heart failure in female patient in peripartum period — how to determine the aetiology?

Katarzyna Gil, Jarosław Drożdż, Agnieszka Pawlak, Aleksandra Michałek, Katarzyna Byczkowska, Włodzimierz Koniarek, Robert J. Gil
DOI: 10.33963/v.kp.79098
Kardiol Pol 2012;70(10):1043-1045.

Abstract

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPM) is an acquired disease of increasing incidence. Its diagnosis and treatment is often problematic. We report a case of 31-year-old woman who was diagnosed with PPM three weeks after delivery and died nine months later despite proper therapy.

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