Delayed-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging features in peripartum cardiomyopathy
| Autor: | O. Vignaux, Denis Duboc, François Goffinet, Julien Marmursztejn, L. Cabanes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Cardiac function curve
medicine.medical_specialty Ejection fraction medicine.diagnostic_test Peripartum cardiomyopathy business.industry musculoskeletal system medicine.disease Asymptomatic Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging Heart failure Internal medicine cardiovascular system medicine Cardiology cardiovascular diseases medicine.symptom Peripartum Period Abnormality Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business circulatory and respiratory physiology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Cardiology. 137:e63-e64 |
| ISSN: | 0167-5273 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.04.028 |
| Popis: | Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare disorder in which left ventricular systolic dysfunction and symptoms of heart failure occur in the peripartum period. Although cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is largely used for diagnosis and prognosis assessment in cardiomyopathies, its interest in PPCM is unknown. We reported two cases of patients with PPCM who underwent CMR. One patient had no CMR abnormality, while the second patient had several areas of myocardial delayed enhancement (MDE) on CMR images. During follow up, the patient with normal CMR was asymptomatic and had full recovery of cardiac function, whereas the patient with MDE was still symptomatic with persistence of a left ventricular dysfunction. CMR could have prognosis value in PPCM as demonstrated in other cardiomyopathies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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