Background T2and T1-mapping are novel CMR techniques allowing objective tissue characterization. These techniques have been shown to be superior to dark blood imaging in NSTEMI patients in detecting ischaemic area at risk and acute oedema. These methods have not been assessed in Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy (TC).The aim of the study was to assess myocardial involvement using T2and T1mapping in Tak...

Figure 1. Normal sized ventricle in diastole. In October 2010, a 64 year-old lady with history of well controlled hypertension, previous stroke with no residual weakness and psoriasis attended for a routine tooth extraction. This proved to be a complicated procedure, lasting over an hour, requiring repeated injections of prilocaine and felypressin and resulting in considerable distress to the p...

INTRODUCTION Tako-tsubo syndrome is a novel cardio-vascular disease affecting predominantly postmenopausal women exposed to unexpected strong emotional or physical stress, in the absence of significant coronary heart disease. It is characterized by acute onset of severe chest pain and/or acute left ventricular failure, ECG-changes, typical left ventricular angiographic findings, good prognosis ...

Acute stress-induced (Tako-tsubo) cardiomyopathy is an increasingly recognized but insufficiently characterized syndrome. Here, we investigate the pathophysiology of right ventricular (RV) involvement in Tako-tsubo and its recovery time course. We prospectively recruited 31 patients with Tako-tsubo with predominantly ST-elevation electrocardiogram and 18 controls of similar gender, age, and co-...

Tako tsubo cardiomyopathy is a reversible form of an acute cardiac dysfunction connected with severe emotional or physical stress. An impact of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression in the tako-tsubo patients is investigated, authors reported its’ significantly higher prevalence in this group in the comparison with an acute coronary syndrome group. The exact pathogenesis remains uncerta...

Povzetek V tem članku je predstavljen postopek sinteze govora s pomočjo prikritih Markovovih modelov. Osnovo za pridobivanje značilk, s katerimi učimo modele, predstavlja vir–filter model govora. Vektor značilk tako sestavimo iz dveh delov. Prvi del opisuje govorni trakt, drugi del pa vzbujanje. Vhod v postopek sinteze predstavlja niz fonemov s pripadajočimi trajanji in poteki osnovne frekvence...

INTRODUCTION Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (stress-induced cardiomyopathy or transient left ventricular ballooning) is characterized by clinical suspicion of an acute myocardial infarction with transient apical or midventricular dyskinesia of the left ventricle without significant coronary stenosis on angiography. The etiology of this disease remains obscure. One of the possible causes is myocardia...

1. Mansencal N, El Mahmoud R, Pillière R, Dubourg O. Relationship between pattern of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy and age: From mid-ventricular to apical ballooning syndrome. Int J Cardiol. 2008. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.06.009. 2. Yoshidaa T, Nishizawab T, Yajimaa K, Tsuruokab M, Fujimakia T, Oguria M, et al. A rare case of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy with variable forms of left ventricular dysfun...

complete EKG and TTE normalization (see video in supplementary files). Our patient did not have any of the usual precipitating events of Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy. The stress induced by high-intensity vomiting may have produced an increase in circulating catecholamines with direct cardiac toxicity.2 In the last 15 years, several cases of sudden cardiac death have been reported in patients with ...

OBJECTIVES We sought to assess myocardial perfusion and metabolism in patients with peculiar transient asynergy, which consisted of basal normokinesia and apical akinesia of the left ventricle (LV) at the same time. BACKGROUND This asynergy has been widely called "tako-tsubo-like LV dysfunction" in Japan, but little is known about its pathophysiology. METHODS We performed rest tallium-201 (...