[Therapeutic interruption of pregnancy in the 4th month shortly after the patient underwent heart transplantation for obstructive hypertrophic heart disease].

We describe here therapeutic abortion of 16 weeks in a woman with a recently transplanted heart. Abortion was inevitable owing to the brief interval (4 months) from heart transplantation, for heavy immunosuppression with risk of congenital anomalies, and mother's will. Abortion was procured under general anaesthesia and without complications. The fetus weighted 70 gm, with good maternal outcome.