Postpartum Cardiomyopathy: A Silent Heart Risk After Childbirth

Peripartum cardiomyopathy presents in the last month of pregnancy or the first five months after delivery, and it is missed often because the early symptoms — breathlessness, swollen ankles, fatigue — are what every new mother expects to feel anyway. COVERED • What peripartum cardiomyopathy is, and when in pregnancy or the postpartum period it appears • The symptoms that should not be dismissed as normal after childbirth • How the diagnosis is made: echocardiography, LV ejection fraction, and excluding other causes • Standard heart failure therapy, and the drugs that must be adjusted while breastfeeding • Anticoagulation considerations at very low ejection fraction • Recovery: many women recover LV function, some do not, and what determines which • Counselling about future pregnancies Outcomes vary considerably between patients. Early diagnosis and prompt guideline-directed treatment give the best chance of recovery, but no outcome can be promised. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CARDIOLOGY EDUCATION Cardiology Clinical Pearls — The Black Book, 1095 Secrets: https://cardiologybooks.com/shop/card... Echocardiography Quick Notes (eBook): https://cardiologybooks.com/shop/echo... Echocardiography live classes: https://cardiologycourse.com/courses/... 1:1 Cardiology Mentorship: https://cardiologycourse.com/cardiolo... All titles: https://cardiologybooks.com/shop/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT Dr A M Thirugnanam, MD, MSICP, FSCAI, Ph.D. Senior Interventional Cardiologist · Hyderabad, India Founder, Academy of Elite Doctors https://dramthirugnanam.com https://cardiologybooks.com https://cardiologycourse.com Subscribe:    / @ipcardtv   This video is for general education only. It is not medical advice and does not replace consultation with your own doctor. #PeripartumCardiomyopathy #HeartFailure #WomensHeartHealth