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21 Jun 2024 • 1 min read

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21 Jun 2024 • 1 min read

Two manuscripts on PPCM accepted in peer reviewed medical journals

We received a lovely email from Lindsey Rosman, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Department of Medicine Yale School of Medicine New Haven. The two research papers she completed with the help of heart sisters was Contraception and reproductive counseling in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy https://www.ncbi.nlm.

22 Jun 2017 • 2 min read

Plant based diet and PPCM

Dr. Kim Williams, president of the American College of Cardiology and chief of cardiology at Rush University, advocates a plant-based diet. William says, "the most important things are plant-based nutrition, exercise, and weight loss. Most people will succumb to heart disease, diabetes, or hypertension on the standard American diet,

30 Mar 2016 • 2 min read

East Carolina University PPCM Study

PPCM Study information: East Carolina University has partnered with leading medical institutions to study quality of life issues in women diagnosed with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM). Our team of physicians and researchers has developed the Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Quality of Life Registry (PC-QoL Registry) to help medical professionals learn more about women’

22 Nov 2015 • 1 min read

2014 Myheartsisters.com update

PPCM It's been a huge year and a long time coming with an update. I hope everyone is doing well. The website is now ranked on page one for terms such as PPCM, Postpartum Cardiomyopathy and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, a dream come true which means that anyone googling those

30 Dec 2014 • 3 min read

Tako-tsubo syndrome caused by caesarean clinically different to peripartum cardiomyopathy

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is similar to Peripartum Cardiomyopathy but it is thought that the stress of a medical procedure such as spinal anesthesia, general anesthesia, and surgery, or an emotional and physical stress of the delivery could have induced the disease and caused left ventrical enlargement, as opposed to myocardial inflammation

21 Jan 2014 • 1 min read

Grief and the death of a baby

A speech shared at Annual Remembrance Service Hope Bereavement, Geelong West Town Hall 2nd December 2013 Our son, Jasher died on the 10th July 2011 at home and a few days later, I was diagnosed with postpartum cardiomyopathy, a life threatening form of heart failure that happens as a result

2 Dec 2013 • 10 min read

Magnesium Supplementation and PPCM

Magnesium is indisputably essential for the proper functioning of the heart, calming the nervous system and relaxing the body. It was first shown to be beneficial to the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in 1935 and also reduces blood pressure. Since then, there has been numerous studies showing that magnesium is

6 Aug 2013 • 3 min read

146a microRNA and PPCM

In 2007, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, a German researcher, showed that a prolactin fragment known as 16K-PRL which is produced in the heart, attacks the blood vessels and the heart tissues. One treatment to reduce the risk of death in women affected by peripartum cardiomyopathy has been to prevent the production of

3 Jun 2013 • 1 min read

Physical Complications in Pregnancy Study

The California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and Stanford University is conducting a study on women's experiences with severe physical complications in pregnancy. Recruitment is limited to those women who live in the United States. The injuries may have been diagnosed at the time of delivery or may not

19 Jan 2013 • 1 min read

Vitamin D and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

We all know that pregnancy uses up a woman's stores of minerals. The old saying, "a tooth for every baby" says how much a growing fetus can take from a mother. Iron stores, calcium, vitamin D, zinc, etc can all be depleted during pregnancy and whether

27 Nov 2012 • 2 min read

Pregnancy and Postpartum Cardiomyopathy

Most women who develop PPCM are told that they are not able to have any more babies. This is because the initial study on post PPCM pregnancies was done on 16 Haitian women, and the study did not distinguish between women who had normal heart function and those who didn&

5 Nov 2012 • 6 min read

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Lessons from Africa

Mayo Clinic cardiologists Bernard Gersh, M.B., Ch.B., D.Phil., and Lori Blauwet, M.D., discuss peripartum cardiomyopathy and Dr. Blauwet's research into its prevalence among African women. This is an informative video that discusses current research into Peripartum Cardiomyopathy in Africa and how the research in

4 Nov 2012 • 1 min read

Postpartum Cardiomyopathy Incidence and Death Rate

Latest study on postpartum cardiomyopathy in North Carolina, estimates the incidence to be 1 case for every 2,772 live births with a 7-year case-fatality rate was 16.5% . This equates to 14 deaths based on one birth year, in North Carolina alone and these are conservative estimates because potential

27 Oct 2012 • 1 min read

Heart Failure in Pregnancy Increasing

Between 1998 and 2009, the rate of serious complications like heart attack, stroke, severe bleeding and kidney failure during or after childbirth roughly doubled among U.S. women, according to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Heart problems were the most common cause of death. And

24 Oct 2012 • 1 min read

All Articles

Welcome back

Two manuscripts on PPCM accepted in peer reviewed medical journals

Plant based diet and PPCM

East Carolina University PPCM Study

2014 Myheartsisters.com update

Tako-tsubo syndrome caused by caesarean clinically different to peripartum cardiomyopathy

Grief and the death of a baby

Magnesium Supplementation and PPCM

146a microRNA and PPCM

Physical Complications in Pregnancy Study

Vitamin D and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

Pregnancy and Postpartum Cardiomyopathy

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Lessons from Africa

Postpartum Cardiomyopathy Incidence and Death Rate

Heart Failure in Pregnancy Increasing

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