Hypothermia treatment for peripartum cardiomyopathy

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It sounds like the work of a novelist or science fiction but in a real life story of survival, a woman who goes into heart failure during pregnancy has a heart attack, is shocked, goes into a coma, is stabalized while put in a state of hypothermia for an hour, is revived, has a device implanted during a 10 day hospital stay, returns to work a month after being discharged from hospital, and then delivers a healthy baby thirteen weeks later. Amazing

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