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The Treatment of Heart Failure-Related Symptoms with Ivabradine in a Case with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

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avatar Serafettin Demir 1 , * , avatar Mucahit Tufenk 2 , avatar Zeynep Karakaya 3 , avatar Rabia Akilli 4 , avatar Mehmet Kanadas 4

1 Department of Cardiology, Adana State Hospital, Adana, Turkey

2 Department of Cardiology, Kiziltepe State Hospital, Mardin, Turkey

3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Adana State Hospital, Adana, Turkey

4 Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey

How to Cite: Demir S, Tufenk M , Karakaya Z , Akilli R , Kanadas M . The Treatment of Heart Failure-Related Symptoms with Ivabradine in a Case with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. Int Cardio Res J. 2017;7(1):e12728.

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International Cardiovascular Research Journal: 7 (1); e12728
Published Online: March 31, 2013
Article Type: Case Report
Received: May 07, 2017
Accepted: February 02, 2013
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Abstract

Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a form of dilated cardiomyopathy that is defined as deterioration in cardiac function presenting typically between the last month of pregnancy and up to five months postpartum. As with other forms of dilated cardiomyopathy, PPCM involves systolic dysfunction of the heart with a decrease of the left ventricular ejection fraction with associated congestive heart failure. In heart failure sinus tachycardia is a poor prognostic factor and the common symptom. In this paper, we presented a case treated with ivabradine which provided additional benefit in patient with acute heart failure.

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