Heart Beat

Our clinic sees a fair number of young women with symptoms of heart failure that develop during or shortly after pregnancy. These women presumably suffer from peripartum cardiomyopathy, however, decompensation of undiagnosed heart failure may cause their symptoms. Selene is one such patient. She is a 34 year old woman

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New Admits

Sonay is a 27-month-old boy who came to the clinic very sick and weak. For a month, he had been losing weight, didn’t want to eat, and had a fever and a cold. He lives with his parents and five siblings in a small, one-room house made of sticks and

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