[Myocardiopathia gravidarum]

8 cases of the clinical syndrom known as cardiomyopathy of pregnancy have been presented. In 6 of them cardiac insufficiency during the last weeks of pregnancy was the prevailing symptomatology. In 2 the characteristic symptoms consisted of severe arrythmia at the beginning of the puerperium. Common symptoms were cardiomegaly and characteristic changes in the electrocardiogram. In all patients the disease subsided entirely some weeks after delivery.