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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
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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
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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
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One of the first books that I read after being discharged from the hospital with post partum cardiomyopathy was The Healthy Heart Program. It was an excellent read and in the crucial first weeks provided a practical plan to recover and an understanding of the action of inflammation in the
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One of the most touching stories about how the gift of a heart that united two families. Taylor Storch, a thirteen year old girl who died in a skiing accident, donated her heart to Patricia Navarino-Winters, a women whose heart was broken because of PPCM. In the video below, NBC
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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,
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The use of bromocriptine to treat severe cases of PPCM remains controversial and has not been fully studied. In a medical journey, there is a report of a woman with PPCM and in severe heart failure receiving 2.5mg of bromocriptine and recovering from an EF of 15% to 60%
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Women with PPCM are generally given a few months to recover before further intervention like ICD or LVAD are implanted. An LVAD is a heart pump that is operated with a battery that helps the heart to pump blood but unlike an artificial heart, it only helps the heart to
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Below is a video from the UPMC discussing why it is important to know the signs of heart failure in pregnancy. PPCM is a diagnosis of exclusion and it affects from 1 in 3,000 to 1 in 4,000 women in the US. Doctors should consider the possiblity of
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We are very much looking forward to releasing the New Members Profile Page, which will make it easier to connect to members. Currently the site, is dependent on the map where you need to hover over each pin or use the side navigation bar to click on individuatl heart sisters
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Welcome to all our new heart sisters. We probably need to explain how all the like buttons work. The "like" at the top corner likes the website and is like a share link and anyone can click on this link. The "Join with Facebook" link registers
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The following studies discuss PPCM, Peripartum Cardiomyopathy as a vascular disases and the possible role of anti-angiogenic signalling in its development, potentially explaining the role of pre-eclampsia and multiple births in the development of PPCM. Harvard University Study A Harvard Medical School–led team has shown that a soluble form