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?

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, a...