Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

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Abstract
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a poorly understood condition whose incidence in the United States is 1 per 3000 to 4000 live births.1 Previous descriptions of the disorder were based on a vague definition derived from a heterogeneous group of patients,2 but in 1997, the participants in a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) workshop agreed on a standardized definition.3 Peripartum cardiomyopathy was defined clinically as the onset of cardiac failure with no identifiable cause in the last month of pregnancy or within five months after delivery, in the absence of heart disease before the last month of pregnancy. The finding . . .