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Case Reports
. 2011 Apr;29(2):178-80.
doi: 10.3329/jhpn.v29i2.7862.

Biventricular thrombi associated with peripartum cardiomyopathy

Dong-Yeon Kim  1 , Saidul Islam, Nelson Taposh Mondal, Felicity Mussell, Matthea Rauchholz
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Case Reports

Biventricular thrombi associated with peripartum cardiomyopathy

Dong-Yeon Kim et al. J Health Popul Nutr. 2011 Apr.

Abstract

A 22-year old woman visited the LAMB Hospital, Parbatipur, Dinajpur, Bangladesh, in February 2010, with exertional dyspnea for three weeks. She had had a normal vaginal delivery four months ago; 2-dimensional echocardiogram showed severe left ventricular dysfunction and biventricular thrombi, which resolved without complications after anticoagulation. Biventricular thrombosis with peripartum cardiomyopathy is quite a rare finding, and its clinical course and proper management is not known. No such case has previously been reported in Bangladesh.

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Chest x-ray showing enlarged cardiac shadow and bilateral pulmonary oedema
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M-mode echocardiogram showing dilated left ventricle and reduced left ventricle systolic function
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Echocardiogram showing biventricular thrombi (A, B), and the thrombi had disappeared on the 21st day after anticoagulation (C)
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