The rare disease causes a pregnant woman’s heart to weaken and enlarge usually in the last month of pregnancy or within five months of giving birth.
CLEVELAND — Just days after giving birth to her firstborn in June 2019, Anne Hutchison feared for her life as her heart began to fail. The disease, Peripartum cardiomyopathy or PPCCM was slowly killing Hutchison without her knowing.
“I was just having some issues with breathing, going up and down the steps. I felt short of breath when I tried to lay down. I felt like somebody had underwater had my head underwater,” she said. “They were running a bunch of tests and the next thing I knew there were like 10 doctors in the room. It was kind of a whirlwind,” she said. “You start to wonder how long of a life you’re going to have at that point and you just had a baby. I kept thinking am I going to be there for her fifth birthday or her 10th birthday?”
“If it's not recognized early and treated appropriately, it can absolutely have not only immediate complications like, you know, cardiac arrest, cardiac death, but it has long-term issues also,” she said. “The hard thing about this diagnosis is the symptoms of heart failure overlap with pregnancy. So, shortness of breath, lower extremity swelling, overwhelming fatigue.
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