Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Experimental and Clinical Medicine (Turkey), cilt.28, sa.4, ss.182-185, 2011 (Scopus)
Postpartum cardiomyopathy is an uncommon disease and the cause is unknown that affects women in the last month of pregnancy or within the frst fve months after delivery. In the etiology of the hormonal disorders, coronary spasm, viral, autoimmune and idiopathic myocarditis, hypertension, apoptosis, genetic, infammatory cytokines, activation of the hypotheses considered. It is associated with high mortality (range from 25 to 50%). In this case report we discussed the case of a 25-year-old woman who had admitted to the intensive care unit with symptoms of palpitations and shortness of breath and suffered from resistant VF attacks. We reported that transvenous temporary pacemaker, intra-aortic balloon pump support, and successful heart transplantation orthotopic in this case. © 2011 OMÜ Tüm haklari saklidir.