Biventricular thrombi and pulmonary embolism in a young woman with peripartum cardiomyopathy

DOI: 10.4328/JCAM.5749 Received: 02.02.2018 Accepted: 23.02.2018 Publihed Online: 25.02.2018 Printed: 01.07.2018 J Clin Anal Med 2018;9(4): 356-8 Corresponding Author: Hakan Güneş, Department of Cardiology, Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University School of Medicine, Kahramanmaras, Turkey. T.: +90 3443003376 F.: +90 3443003409 E-Mail: drhakangunes83@hotmail.com Abstract Postpartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare form of left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction of unknown etiology that occurs in previously healthy women in the final month of pregnancy or postpartum. It is characterized by LV systolic dysfunction and congestive heart failure and is associated with thromboembolic events and LV thrombus. Here we presented a postpartum cardiomyopathy patient with biventricular thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism.