..., and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background and Aims Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) remains a serious threat to maternal health around the world. While bromocriptine, in addition to standard treatment for heart failure, presents a promising pathophysiology...

... inhibitor bromocriptine in refractory cardiogenic shock complicating peripartum cardiomyopathy. Methods and results In this single-centre analysis, five peripartum cardiomyopathy patients with refractory cardiogenic shock received mechanical circulatory support with either Impella CP microaxial pump...

... failure Bromocriptine Historically, in Western societies PPCM had been considered a rare disease and seemed to affect mainly African women or women of African ancestry. However, in line with other forms of cardiovascular disease, the incidence of PPCM is steadily on the rise in Western countries being...

... depicting inducers of increased oxidative stress in the peripartum maternal heart that mediate the generation of antiangiogenic 16kDa prolactin from the nursing hormone prolactin which drives PPCM as well as the hypothetic mechanisms how the prolactin release blocker bromocriptine together with standard...

...Nadia Bouabdallaoui; Frederic Mouquet; Guillaume Lebreton; Pierre Demondion; Thierry H Le Jemtel; Pierre V Ennezat Peripartum cardiomyopathy heart failure bromocriptine left ventricular assist device heart transplantation Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) refers to the development of heart...

...Saad Lahlou; Gloria Pinto Duarte; Pierre Demenge Correspondence to Dr Demenge. We are greatly indebted to the CNRS (URA 1287) and the Université Joseph Fourier for their financial support. We also thank Sandoz Pharmaceuticals and Janssen Pharmaceuticals for their generous gifts of bromocriptine...

... guidelines for the management of cardiovascular diseases during pregnancy included treatment with bromocriptine in management recommendations of patients with PPCM (class IIb recommendation). Clinical trial and registries reporting on disease-specific therapies, that is, the use of prolactin blockers...

... cardiomyopathy heart failure treatment bromocriptine cardiomyopathies heart disease in pregnancy heart failure HF hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM gestational hypertension hypertension preeclampsia This chapter provides the background information and detailed discussion of the data for the following...