jugular venous distention = left heart failure
pulmonary edema = right heart failure
Four-chamber dilation is the most likely answer.
Other answers:
Peri- or postpartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare, life-threatening heart disease of unclear origin and is characterized by heart failure of sudden onset between the final weeks of pregnancy and 6 months after delivery. link to pubmed The clinical picture of PPCM corresponds to a dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) with signs of severe heart failure.
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this is actually a UW question (14992) Peripartum cardiomyopathy manifests as a dilated cardiomyopathy, can occur during last month of pregnancy or within 5 months after delivery, pathogenesis poorly understood, but may be related to impaired function of angiogenic growth factors (e.g VEGF) or predisposed by mutations in cardiac structural proteins.