How to cite this article: Peters S. Mid-Ventricular Ballooning in Atherosclerotic and Non-Atherosclerotic Abnormalities of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery. J Cardiol Cardiovasc Med. 2016; 1: 009-010. Myocardial coronary bridging [1], encasement [2], and mid-LAD rigid straightening [3-5] appears to be epiphenomenon of takotsubo syndrome [6], rather than causing the disease. Typical ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is characterized by transient, often severe, left ventricular dysfunction and electrocardiographic changes that might mimic acute myocardial infarction in the absence of significant obstructive coronary artery disease. It is often encountered in elderly women after physical or emotional stress. Excessive catecholamine stimulation, metabolic abnormalities, and micro...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is usually characterized by transient left ventricular apical ballooning. Due to the clinical symptoms which include chest pain, electrocardiographic changes, and elevated myocardial markers, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is frequently mimicking ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the absence of a significant coronary artery disease. Otherwise an acute occlusion of t...

left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy is a rare congenital cardiomyopathy that affects both children and adults. since the clinical manifestations are not sufficient to establish diagnosis, echocardiography is the diagnostic tool that makes it possible to document ventricular non-compaction and establish prognostic factors. we report a 47-year-old woman with a history of dilated cardio...

Choi et al. compared 20 patients with definite pheochromocytoma and various cardiac manifestations to 20 controls with Takotsubo after intense emotional stress. However, the usual diagnostic criterion for Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is self-improvement and (complete or near complete) correction of motion abnormalities. Did the patients have to demonstrate this correction to be included in the Tako...

specific (tsubo-type) left ventriculographic configuration due to multivessel spasm. In: Kodama K, Haze K, Hori M, editors. Clinical Aspect of Myocardial Injury: From Ischemia to Heart Failure [in Japanese]. Tokyo: Kagakuhyouronsya, 1990:56–64. 3. Dote K, Sato H, Tateishi H, et al. Myocardial stunning due to simultaneous multivessel spasms: a review of 5 cases [in Japanese with English abstract...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is an uncommon clinical entity, also called apical ballooning syndrome, characterized by transient systolic dysfunction of the apical and/or mid segments of the left ventricle. We report a case that highlights takotsubo syndrome in the setting of thyrotoxicosis that required thyroidectomy. The association of takotsubo syndrome and hyperthyroidism has been reported befor...

Stress (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy is a form of reversible left ventricular dysfunction with a heightened risk of ventricular arrhythmia thought to be caused by high circulating catecholamines. We report a case of stress cardiomyopathy that developed during severe alcohol withdrawal successfully treated with dexmedetomidine. The case involves a 53-year-old man with a significant history of alcoh...

rom the University School f Medicine, Clinical Center f Serbia, Cardiology Clinic nd Emergency Hospital, oronary Care Unit, elgrade, Serbia. anuscript received ebruary 10, 2010; ccepted February 18, 2010. A49-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with dyspnea 3 days after her mother’s death. The electrocardiogram at admission showed sinus tachycardia, T-wave inversion in leads V1...

BACKGROUND Stress-induced/Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is an increasingly recognized diagnostic entity. OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to assess the prevalence and clinical predictors of short and long-term outcome of patients (pts) diagnosed with TC. METHODS We included all consecutive pts admitted in our department, from November 2006 to August 2011, who met the Mayo Clinic criteria for ...