Cerebral embolism as the initial manifestation of peripartum cardiomyopathy
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 32 (6), 668
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.32.6.668
Abstract
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is characterized by heart failure in the last trimester or puerperium without obvious cause. We studied a 30-year-old woman who had an embolic stroke as the result of an otherwise asymptomatic peripartum cardiomyopathy.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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