Official Journal of the Albanian Society of Internal Medicine

ISSN 3007-6692

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POST-PARTUM CARDIOMYOPATHY AND STROKE. CASE REPORT

Postpartum cardiomyopathy, also known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, is one of the rare causes of stroke in young females. Postpartum cardiomyopathy is defined as new- onset heart failure between the last month of pregnancy and 5 months post-delivery with no determinable cause. Risk factors include multiparity, advanced maternal age, multiple pregnancies, pre-eclampsia, chronic hypertension, smoking, alcoholism, malnutrition, and long- term tocolysis.