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Apical-ballooning syndrome [PDF]
The Lancet, 2007 Case presentation: A 60-year-old woman presented to the emergency department 2 hours after the onset of severe retrosternal chest pain that started soon after she was told that her son had died in a car accident. A 12-lead ECG demonstrated ST-elevation in the precordial leads (Figure 1), and the plasma troponin T level was elevated at 0.07 ng/mL.
Ilan Wittstein
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Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (apical ballooning) [PDF]
Heart, 2007 In recent years, a new cardiac syndrome with transient left ventricular dysfunction has been described in Japanese patients. This new entity has been referred to as “tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy” or “apical ballooning”, named for the particular shape of the end-systolic left ventricle in ventriculography.1 To date, tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy has also been ...
Holger M, Nef +2 more
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Global Cardiology, 2023 Myocardial bridging is a rare event, which leads to chest pain, arrhythmias and discussable Takotsubo syndrome (cardiomyopathy). We enrolled 41 patients (33 females, mean age 68.4 years), the majority of whom had Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in any form ...
Stefan Peters
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Apical ballooning in takotsubo cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2008 Stress-induced takotsubo cardiomyopathy exhibiting transient left ventricular apical ballooning with chest symptoms, electrocardiogram changes and minimal myocardial enzymatic release has become accepted worldwide as a distinct clinical entity. The present paper describes three patients who underwent left ventriculography because of chest symptoms ...
Satoshi, Kurisu +2 more
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Apical thrombus associated with left ventricular apical ballooning [PDF]
Heart, 2003 A 64 year old woman under antidepressant treatment, but with no coronary risk factors, was admitted to our institution with a two day history of continuous atypical chest pain. The ECG showed pronounced ST segment elevation in leads II, III, aVF and V2–V6 (panel A).
C F, Barrera-Ramirez +2 more
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Takotsubo Syndrome with Complete Heart Block and Cardiogenic Shock
Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2023 This report describes a 62-year-old postmenopausal female patient who presented with cardiogenic shock, wide QRS complete heart block (CHB), left ventricular apical ballooning with severe systolic dysfunction, and normal coronary angiogram. She underwent
Madhu Shukla, Jagdish Chander Mohan
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Oral anticoagulation in high risk Takotsubo syndrome: when should it be considered and when not?
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2018 Standard pharmacological therapy in Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is still debated and there is a lack of prospective data. In their recent work in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders Abanador-Kamper et al. found that stroke in TTS has an event rate of 2.8% after 30
Francesco Santoro +5 more
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and sepsis: a systematic review [PDF]
, 2017 Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) is characterized by a systolic dysfunction localized in the apical and medial aspect of the left ventricle. It is usually related to physical or emotional stress.
Agarwal V +15 more
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Too Much Stress- A Rare Case of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020 Takotsubo syndrome is a reversible, stress-induced transient systolic and diastolic dysfunction. It was first described as a characteristic ballooning of left ventricular apex which closely resembles a Japanese fishing pot.
Oorya Narayanan Balasubramani +1 more
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Case Reports in Cardiology, 2012 Transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome is characterized by transient akinesis of the left ventricular apex with basal wall hyperkinesis; this is also known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
R. Zbinden, M. Mutter, D. Weishaupt
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