VEGFA and peripartum cardiomyopathy: Very intriguingly, patients who recover fully from peripartum cardiomyopathy continue to have significantly higher circulating sFlt1 concentrations and significantly lower VEGF/sFlt1 ratios along with abnormal left ventricular (LV) global longitudinal strain values.42 Thus, the angiogenic imbalance persists in these patients along with subtle evidence of myocardial dysfunction, strengthening the view of their association.