pericardial effusion in pregnancy

We repeated an echocardiogram yesterday on a lady who is 36 weeks pregnant . She had been scanned about 4 weeks ago as she was complaining of some palpitations and breathelssness and we found her to have a low normal efection fraction of around 50% . We weren't certain if this was peripartum cardiomyopathy and hence the rescan. To my surprise the rest of the echo hasn't changed but she now has a samll global pericardial effusion. Has anyone seen a case like this before? sadian
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