Apical ballooning syndrome precipitated by dobutamine stress testing

Dobutamine stress echo-induced apical ballooning (Takotsubo) syndrome.

AIMS We report a case of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) resulting in transient apical ballooning syndrome to highlight this rare condition as a potential complication of DSE. BACKGROUND Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or transient apical ballooning syndrome, is a recently described form of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction induced by stress. Clinically it can mimic acute coronary syndrome...

Stress Cardiomyopathy: A Case of Apical Ballooning Syndrome followed by Mid-ventricular Ballooning Syndrome as Recurrence

Stress cardiomyopathy has an association with emotional or physical stressors and is found to be more common in postmenopausal women. It has a similar presentation as acute myocardial infarction. Involvement of apex at the initial presentation and recurrence at the mid ventricular segment is rare. We describe a case of a 46 year old female with apical involvement at the initial presentation but...

Apical ballooning syndrome (Takotsubo Syndrome): case report

INTRODUCTION The apical ballooning syndrome (ABS) is a single reversible cardiomyopathy often triggered by a stressful event. We aimed to present a case report regarding this disorder. CASE PRESENTATION Here we present the case of a 77-year-old female hypertensive patient, sedentary and non-smoker, diagnosed with apical ballooning syndrome. We describe the clinical signs and symptoms, changes...

“dobutamine stress testing”-triggered mid-ventricular takotsubo syndrome

Dobutamine stress testing revisited.

I read with great interest the recently published study by Calnon et al. (1), which analyzed the clinical outcome of patients who underwent dobutamine stress single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) Tc-99m-sestamibi imaging. Two aspects of this study are rather intriguing, and deserve further examination. First, the annual “hard” cardiac event rate in patients with normal dobutamine S...