About the perinatal myocardiopathy's treatment, it should adopt comprehensive measure, including cardiac stimulant, diuresis, blood vessel expansion and arrythmia correction and so on. The medication shall be taken under the instruction by doctors.

Those pregnant women without heart disease originally, have cardiac muscle expand in 3 months after the pregnancy to 5 months post partum, which is called generally as the perinatal myocardiopathy.

Although the reason for perinatal myocardiopathy is unclear, it has the following characteristic: The patients mostly get the symptoms suddenly or gradually like palpitation, dyspnea, heart failure after 28 weeks in the pregnancy period to 5 months of post-natal. It primarily demonstates by heart failure, therefore the patients often feel dyspnea, hemoptysis and dropsy. The patients present rough blowing systolic murmur in the apex cordis, the cardiac muscle expansion. The electrocardiogram examination shows the ventricular hypertrophy; have the ST-T wave change  occurrence and phenomenon of the arrythmia; the X rays demonstrate the heart accretion. Patients who do not have organic heart disease, nephritis and hypertension medical history before the intermediate stage of pregnancy, may remove other heart diseases, the pericarditis and so on. This disease is generally well after cure. After the active treatment, it can be cured. But if the pregnancy possibly take places again, and the condition is more serious, the risk for the patient is also higher.

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