Successful treatment of peripartum cardiomyopathy with mechanical assist devices and cardiac transplantation

In the severe form of peripartum cardiomyopathy short and long-term continuous flow ventricular assist devices offer a safe bridge to transplant where cardiac transplantation seems to be the only hope and treatment end point for most of these patients. In this report we described the outcome of a 33 years old patient on the 32nd gestational week with peripartum cardiomyopathy who was successfully treated with biventricular mechanical assist devices and cardiac transplantation.