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When Brianna Harris-Henderson was 23 years old and expecting her second baby, she started feeling short of breath. The diagnosis was Peripartum Cardiomyopathy or PPCM, a condition that would change ...

Scientists at The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation have identified a previously unknown molecular safeguard that ...

Postpartum cardiomyopathy is a type of heart failure that weakens your heart one month before or up to five months after your delivery. Because your heart problems happen around childbirth, it's also ...

Pregnant women undergo various bodily changes and may also be prone to conditions like peripartum cardiomyopathy. It is a type of heart failure that occurs towards the end of pregnancy or in the ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA — African American women with peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) fare markedly worse than non–African American women, a new study suggests [1]. Compared with non–African American women ...

Risk for peripartum cardiomyopathy is partially associated with neighborhood disinvestment and prepregnancy hypertension. Neighborhood disinvestment and prepregnancy hypertension are partially ...

Uncertainty surrounding how truncated titin proteins (TTNtvs) cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) led to investigations that could better inform therapies for these ...

Researchers at Penn Medicine have identified more genetic mutations that strongly predispose younger, otherwise healthy women to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM), a rare condition characterized by ...