What does PPCM stand for?

Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

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The following day they explained that she was suffering from peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare heart disorder which occurs during the last month of pregnancy and in the following six months.

The 14lb baby who gave me heart failure

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (during the last third of pregnancy or the first few months afterwards) is rare, affecting about one in 10,000 pregnancies.

Your Life: My heart failed.. in the middle of labour; Sheryl Duffy ...

She then had peripartum cardiomyopathy, experienced by one in every 60,000 pregnant women.

WALES: Brave carer's double award

AS TOLD TO LUCY LAING Two babies was too much for my body to cope with SPOT THE SIGNS POSTPARTUM or Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare condition where the heart becomes enlarged and weak so it isn't able to function properly.

Your LIFE: HELEN COULD HAVE DROPPED DEAD AT ANY MOMENT THEN.. Having ...

It can be due to underlying heart disease before pregnancy or to peripartum cardiomyopathy.

Relationship between mitral valve regurgitant flow and peripartum ...

Three years ago, she was found to have the rare heart defect peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), which restricts blood flow from the, heart to the rest of the body.

Women: You'll die if you have a baby; ..WHAT DOCTORS TOLD MUM EMMA

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is defined as the development of heart failure in the last month of pregnancy or within 5 months after delivery without any determinable cause and without previous heart disease before the last month of pregnancy.

Team B: family practice, emergency medicine, gynecology & obstetrics, ...

Three years ago, she was found to have the rare heart defect peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), which restricts blood flow from the heart to the rest of the body.

YourLIFE: You'll die if you have a baby; ..WHAT DOCTORS TOLD MUM EMMA