Peripartum cardiomyopathy: current theories about etiopathogenesis, potential biomarkers and treatment - a literature review

• Main Authors: Bartłomiej Zielonka (Author), Ilona Kowalczyk (Author), Cezary Stawikowski (Author), Marta Wolanin (Author), Izabela Wolanin (Author), Bartłomiej Stachyra (Author), Paulina Krawiec (Author), Karolina Madej (Author), Aleksandra Osińska (Author), Barbara Dengler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Kazimierz Wielki University, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a form of an idiopathic systolic heart failure, which occurs the most often in the last weeks of pregnancy or in the early postpartum period. Symptoms of this disease include exertional dyspnea, orthopnoea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea and edema. They...