Thrombo-Embolic Renal Infarction in a Case of Mid-Ventricular Takotsubo Syndrome

Acute Thrombo-embolic Renal Infarction

A 65-year-old woman was admitted for acute onset of right lower abdominal pain. She was taking anticoagulant medication regularly for rheumatic valvular disease and atrial fibrillation. Physical examination revealed no obvious abdominal or flank tenderness. Right thrombo-embolic renal infarction was diagnosed after performing computed tomography angiography (CTA).

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

[Transient mid-ventricular ballooning: a variant of Takotsubo syndrome].

In the majority of cases, Takotsubo syndrome is characterized by the fact that it presents in association with a situation of stress and shows clinical symptoms and electrocardiogram findings consistent with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and slightly elevated enzymes. Transient left ventricular apical ballooning is produced in this condition and recovers over several days or weeks. Takotsub...

Transient oedema in mid-ventricular Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Use of cardiac catheterization for non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes according to initial risk: reasons why physicians choose not to refer their patients. Arch Intern Med 2008;168:291–296. 34. de Araujo Goncalves P, Ferreira J, Aguiar C, Seabra-Gomes R. TIMI, PURSUIT, and GRACE risk scores: sustained prognostic value and interaction with revascularization in NSTE-ACS. Eur Heart ...

Successful thrombo-embolectomy in long-standing thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension.