Takotsubo cardiomyopathy presenting with dyspnea

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 200-202

  Pezzo, Stephanie P ^a   Hartlage, Gregory ^a   Edwards, Charles M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical ballooning; Left ventricular dysfunction; Myocardial infarction; Stress cardiomyopathy; Takotsubo

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 67649382622     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.402     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Wittstein IS, Thiemann DR, Lima JAC, et al. Neurohormonal features of myocardial stunning due to sudden emotional stress. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:540-548.
2. Dote K, Sato H, Tateishi H, et al. Myocardial stunning due to simultaneous multivessel coronary spasm: a review of 5 cases. J Cardiol. 1991;21:203-214.
3. Seth PS, Aurigemma GP, Krasnow JM, et al. A syndrome of transient left ventricular apical wall motion abnormality in the absence of coronary disease: a perspective from the United States. Cardiology. 2003;100:61-66.
4. Bybee KA, Prasad A, Barness GW, et al. Clinical characteristics and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction frame counts in women with transient left ventricular ballooning syndrome. Am J Cardiol. 2004;94:343-346.
5. Elian D, Osherov A, Matetzky S, et al. Left ventricular apical ballooning: not an uncommon variant of acute myocardial infarction in women. Clin Cardiol. 2006;29:9-12.
6. Donohue D, Mohammed-Reza M. Clinical characteristics, demographics and prognosis of transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome. Heart Fail Rev. 2005;10:311-316.
7. Patel HM, Kantharia BK, Morris DL, et al. Takotsubo syndrome in African-American women with atypical presentations: a single-center experience. Clin Cardiol 2007;30:14-18.