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Atypical form of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
To cite: Jouhra F, Dworakowski R, MacCarthy P. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2012008376 DESCRIPTION A 60-year-old lady was referred to our cardiology team with troponin-positive chest pain following elective pelvic floor repair for vaginal prolapse. There were no significant ECG changes. Cardiovascular risk factors consisted of extensive history ...
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Several relatively recent case reports and series have described a condition featuring symptoms and signs of acute myocardial infarction without demonstrable coronary artery stenosis or spasm in which the heart takes on the appearance of a Japanese octopus fishing pot called a takotsubo (Figure 1). In takotsubo cardiomyopathy (also called transient apical ballooning and stress cardiomyopathy), ...
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BACKGROUND Due to the rise in the number of reports of stress cardiomyopathy in the literature, awareness of this condition is increasing. Although different names have been used to describe this condition, the similarities in clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and angiographic features suggest that they represent the same spectrum of diseases with different underlying causes. T...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1757-790X
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-008376