O'Dwyer Vicky, O'Brien Yvonne, Farah Nadine, Turner Michael J
UCD Centre for Human Reproduction, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Case Rep Obstet Gynecol. 2011;2011:317376. doi: 10.1155/2011/317376. Epub 2011 Sep 22.
Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a serious, potentially life-threatening heart disease of uncertain aetiology in previously healthy women. We report a morbidly obese woman who presented with peripartum shortness of breath. We discuss the differential diagnosis of dyspnoea in pregnancy and highlight the complexity of care of the morbidly obese woman.