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[Echocardiographic myocardial performance in the normal postpartum in black African women]

A Adoh1, C Eboule Alloua, F I Kouassi Yapo

  • 1Service d'explorations externes, Travail de l'Institut de Cardiologie d'Abidjan.

Annales De Cardiologie Et D'Angeiologie
|November 1, 1992
PubMed

The authors have carried out a prospective ultrasound study of normal post-partum myocardial performance in black African women free from any systemic and/or cardiovascular disorder. The volume overload, reduction in ejection indices and increase in telesystolic constraint, which are significant essential changes observed immediately post-partum, return to normal values within two months. According to the authors, these disturbances reflect a transient change in myocardial function which expresses the potentially harmful effect of the natural changes during the normal post-partum phase.

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