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Peripartum cardiomyopathy and arterial embolism
B Bassaw1, D C Ariyanayagam, S Roopnarinesingh
1Mount Hope Women's Hospital, Trinidad.
The West Indian Medical Journal
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
A severely pre-eclampic patient developed peripartum cardiomyopathy and bilateral femoral emboli. Medical therapy for cardiac failure was commenced prior to delivery by Caesarean Section. Bilateral femoral embolectomy was performed on the sixth postpartum day.