Related Experiment Videos
Peripartum cardiomyopathy with recovery in a patient with coincidental Eisenmenger ventricular septal defect
C M Oakley1, P Nihoyannopoulos
1Department of Medicine (Clinical Cardiology), Hammersmith Hospital, London.
Severe pulmonary vascular disease was found during pregnancy in a 31 year old woman with a large ventricular septal defect. Three months after delivery peripartum cardiomyopathy with severe biventricular failure developed. This was a chance association. Recovery of ventricular function was slow but was complete two years later. There was no advance in the pulmonary vascular disease.
Severe pulmonary vascular disease was found during pregnancy in a 31 year old woman with a large ventricular septal defect. Three months after delivery peripartum cardiomyopathy with severe biventricular failure developed. This was a chance association. Recovery of ventricular function was slow but was complete two years later. There was no advance in the pulmonary vascular disease.