Severe dilated cardiomyopathy undergoing emergency lower segment cesarean section: A case report

Delayed peripartum cardiomyopathy after emergency cesarean section

Corresponding author: Woo-Jong Choi, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Pungnap-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3010-3868, Fax: 82-2-3010-6790, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (ht...

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