Cerebral embolism as the initial manifestation of peripartum cardiomyopathy
Hodgman, M.T.; Pessin, M.S.; Homans, D.C.; Panis, W.; Prager, R.J.; Lathi, E.S.; Criscitiello, M.G.
Neurology 32(6): 668-671
1982
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-3878 PMID: 7201099 Document Number: 184630
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is characterized by heart failure in the last trimester or puerperium without obviuous cause. A 30-yr-old woman was studied who had an embolic stroke as the result of an otherwise asymptomatic peripartum cardiomyopathy.
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