Recurrent peripartum cardiomyopathy.

Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol

Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology II, University of Bari, Italy.

Published: January 1998

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is an uncommon myocardial disease arising in the latter part of pregnancy or during the first five postpartum months, in the absence of any obvious cause and with no previously known heart disease. The risk of recurrence of PPCM is considered low when left ventricular size and function return to normal: We illustrate a case of peripartum cardiomyopathy recurred in subsequent pregnancy despite the rapid return to normal of heart size and function.

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