[Aborted sudden death secondary to recurrent transient apical dyskinesia].

We describe the case of a 77-year-old woman, ex-smoker, with mild emphysema, and bronchial hyperreactivity, admitted 2 years earlier at another hospital for bronchospasm with severe concomitant heart failure, who required treatment with vasoactive amines and ventilation support. The clinical condition was associated with generalized T-wave negativity, inversion mild enzyme elevation and alterations in cardiac contractility assessed as “consistent with myopericarditis”; the symptoms had all resolved at the time of discharge.