Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2017

POSTPARTUM ANASARCA RARE CASE REPORT

Dr Rakesh Garlapati, Dr B N Raghavendra Prasad, Dr Prasanna Kumar, Dr Prabhakar

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 Pregnancy is a critical period in which significant hemodynamic and immunologic changes that in certain cases can become problematic. PPCM is a disease of unknown cause in which left ventricular (LV) dysfunction occurs during the last trimester of pregnancy or the early puerperium, reported in 1:1300 to 1:4000 of live births (1). Demakis et al2, defined peripartum cardiomyopathy as idiopathic heart failure occurring in the absence of any determinable heart disease in the last month of pregnancy or during the first 5 months postpartum.

Current Diagnostic Criteria for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy3

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Dr Rakesh Garlapati, Dr B N Raghavendra Prasad, Dr Prasanna Kumar, Dr Prabhakar, POSTPARTUM ANASARCA RARE CASE REPORT, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-4 | APRIL‾2017


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