Peripartum cardiomyopathy mimicking acute aortic dissection: successful salvage with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support

Selim İsbir; Koray Ak; Mustafa Aslantaş; Alper Kepez; İsmail Cinel; Sinan Arsan

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.10153

Selim İsbir¹, Koray Ak¹, Mustafa Aslantaş², Alper Kepez³, İsmail Cinel¹, Sinan Arsan¹

Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
¹Departments of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
²Departments of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Medical Faculty of Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey
³Departments of Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Marmara University, İstanbul, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.10153

In this article, we report a case admitted with severe chest pain associated with ST segment elevation, pericardial effusion and aortic flap appearance in echocardiography at the 31 weeks of gestation, mimicking aortic dissection, but diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy and successfully treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after developing acute cardiogenic shock.

Keywords : Cardiogenic shock; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; peripartum cardiomyopathy

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