Abstract:A 29-year old female patient without a history of cardiovascular diseases was admitted on emergency to a surgical hospital with acute calculous cholecystitis in 3 months after uncomplicated term birth. During laparoscopic cholecystectomy, she developed arterial hypotension with pulmonary edema, which required intravenous sympathomimetics. On the next day, after improvement of the condition and stabilization of hemodynamics, cardiac ultrasound showed diffuse left ventricular (LV) hypokinesis with the ejection f… Show more
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