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Peripartum cardiomyopathy occurring in a patient previously treated with doxorubicin
1Department of Internal Medicine D, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
|December 31, 1997
Abstract:
We present a 28-year-old primigravida woman in whom congestive heart failure developed 3 months after delivery of a neonate. The patient underwent doxorubicin treatment 10 years previously. The combined cardiotoxicity of prior doxorubicin treatment and pregnancy is considered, and the importance of careful follow-up of cardiac function during pregnancy and postpartum in patients previously treated with doxorubicin is stressed.