Long-Term Outcomes of Women With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Having Subsequent Pregnancies

A retrospective reivew of 45 women who had  78 subsequent pregnancies after being diagnosed with PPCM. Adverse outcomes - mainly heart failure and recurrence of PPCM-  were more common in women who had a subsequent pregnancy without recovered LV function compared to women who had a subsequent pregnancy with a recovered ejection fraction (53% of subsequent pregnancies in women without recovered ejection fraction compared to 20% of subsequent preganancies in women who had recovered LVEF).