Case report: the management for a gestational hypertensive woman with influenza A virus pneumonia and peripartum cardiomyopathy

• Main Authors: Kwok-On Ng (Author), Lok-Hi Chow (Author), Chun-Chang Yeh (Author), Eagle Yi-Kung Huang (Author), Wei-Cheng Liu (Author), Ping-Heng Tan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is defined as an idiopathic cardiomyopathy occurring in the last month of pregnancy or the first 6 months postpartum without an identifiable cause. PPCM is suspected to be triggered by the generation of a cardiotoxic fragment of prolactin and the...