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Should all pregnant patients with newly reduced LVEF <45% be referred as soon as possible to advanced heart failure given high risk for maternal morbidity/mortality in setting of suspected peripartum cardiomyopathy?
If PPCM is suspected, what are your targeted hemodynamic goals during the delivery phase?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
The ESC EURObservational Research Programme demonstrated that at six months, in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy:
Left ventricular function recovery occurred in 46% of women, whereas 23% continued to have persisting and severe left ventricular dysfunction
Re-hospitalization rate was one in 10,...
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