[Peripartum cardiomyopathy: experience at the Central Military Hospital, Mexico]

Peripatum cardiomyopathy is a rare disease, which appears as cardiac failure, at the end of pregnancy and puerperium without an apparent cause. The diagnosis is done clinically based in accepted criteria by Demakis, and it is confirmed by auxiliary tests. Treatment includes rest, digitalic and diuretic medications. Prognosis is bad when there is not symptomatic regression, with a high mortality soon after. The experience at Hospital Central Militar from 1967 to 1995, is presented. There were nine cases, two of which had died; and the presentation of the last case, is done herein.