Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of peripartum cardiomyopathy: a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on peripartum cardiomyopathy.

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Published in Eur J Heart Fail on August 01, 2010

Authors

Karen Sliwa1, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Mark C Petrie, Alexandre Mebazaa, Burkert Pieske, Eckhart Buchmann, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Maria Schaufelberger, Luigi Tavazzi, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Hugh Watkins, Ajay J Shah, Petar M Seferovic, Uri Elkayam, Sabine Pankuweit, Zoltan Papp, Frederic Mouquet, John J V McMurray, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

Author Affiliations

1: Hatter Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. sliwa-hahnlek@mdh-africa.org

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