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CARDIOMYOPATHY AND RENAL FAILURE OCCURRING IN THE PUERPERIUM
Author(s) -
Parsons Victor,
Porter Andrew,
Dische Frederick
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1971.tb00317.x
Subject(s) - medicine , etiology , myocarditis , cardiomyopathy , heart failure , dialysis , peripartum cardiomyopathy , lesion , cardiology , surgery
Summary A fatal case of puerperal cardiomyopathy in a 28‐year‐old woman is described. Congestive cardiac failure with episodes of collapse and hypotension developed about a month after confinement. Acute renal tubular necrosis supervened, necessitating dialysis, and the patient died after a brief illness. Necropsy revealed granulomatous and eosinophilic myocarditis. The aetiology of the lesion was not established but there are grounds for suspecting that it was due to hypersensitivity to sulphamethoxypyridazine.