Emotional stress and Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: Observations on 2 distinct clinical phenotypes

Journal of Investigative Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 298-302

  Yaqub, Yasir ^a   Jenkins, Leigh A ^b   Suarez, Jose ^b   Sutthiwan, Piraon ^b   Phy, Michael ^a   Nugent, Kenneth M ^a   Kumar, Ashwani ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical phenotypes; Emotional stress; Tako tsubo

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL STRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNDROME; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77950685208     PISSN: 17088267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/JIM.0b013e3181c9b2b8     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Prasad A, Lerman A, Rihal CS. Apical ballooning syndrome (tako-tsubo or stress cardiomyopathy): a mimic of acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 2008;155:408-417.
2. Maron BJ, Towbin JA, Thiene G, et al. American Heart Association contemporary definitions and classification of the cardiomyopathies: American Heart Association scientific statement from the Council on Clinical Cardiology, Heart Failure and Transplantation Committee; Quality of Care and Outcomes Research and Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Interdisciplinary Working Groups; and Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. Circulation. 2006; 113, 1807-1816. (Pubitemid 43958474)
3. Bybee KA, Kara T, Prasad A, et al. Transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome: a mimic of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Ann Intern Med. 2004;141:858-865. (Pubitemid 39601180)
4. Gill JS, Hunter GJ, Gane G, et al. Heterogeneity of the human myocardial sympathetic innervation: in vivo demonstration by iodine 123-labeled meta-iodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy. Am Heart J. 1993;126:390-398. (Pubitemid 23242031)
5. Morel O, Sauer F, Imperiale A, et al. Importance of inflammation and neurohumoral activation in takotsubo cardiomyopathy. J Card Fail. 2009;15:206-213.
6. Singh NK, Rumman S, Mikell FL, et al. Stress cardiomyopathy: clinical and ventriculographic characteristics in 107 North American subjects. Int J Cardiol. 2009 Jan 18 [Epub ahead of print].
7. Vidi V, Rajesh V, Singh PP, et al. Clinical characteristics of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol. 2009;104:578-582.
8. Gianni M, Dentali F, Grandi AM, et al. Apical ballooning syndrome or takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a systematic review. Eur Heart J. 2006;27:1523-1529. (Pubitemid 43954909)
9. Elesber A, Prasad A, Lennon R, et al. Four-year recurrence rate and prognosis of the apical ballooning syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007;50:448-452. (Pubitemid 47088125)
10. Parsad S. Apical ballooning syndrome, an important differential diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2007;115:e56-e59. (Pubitemid 46226154)
11. Hanna M, Finkelhor RS, Shaw WF, et al. Extent of right and left ventricular focal wall-motion abnormalities in differentiating transient apical ballooning syndrome from apical dysfunction as a result of coronary artery disease. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2007;20:144-150. (Pubitemid 46188396)
12. Sharkey SW, Lesser JR, Menon M, et al. Spectrum and significance of electrocardiographic patterns, troponin levels, and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction frame count in patients with stress (tako-tsubo) cardiomyopathy and comparison to those in patients with ST-elevation anterior wall myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 2008;101:1723-1728.
13. Meimoun P, Malaquin D, Sayah S, et al. The coronary flow reserve is transiently impaired in tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: a prospective study using serial Doppler transthoracic echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2008;21(1):72-77.
14. Hahn J, Gwon HC, Park SW, et al. The clinical features of transient left ventricular nonapical ballooning syndrome: comparison with apical ballooning syndrome. Am Heart J. 2007;154:1166-1173. (Pubitemid 350116045)
15. Elesber A, Lerman A, Bybee KA, et al. Myocardial perfusion in apical ballooning syndrome correlate of myocardial injury. Am Heart J. 2006;152:469.e9-469.e13. (Pubitemid 44233441)
16. Akashi YJ, Nakazawa K, Sakakibara M, et al. The clinical features of takotsubo cardiomyopathy. QJM. 2003;96:563-573. (Pubitemid 36987255)
17. Tsuchihashi K, Ueshima K, Uchida T, et al. Transient left ventricular apical ballooning without coronary artery stenosis: a novel heart syndrome mimicking acute myocardial infarction. Angina Pectoris-Myocardial Infarction Investigations in Japan. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2001;38:11-18.
18. Bybee KA, Prasad A, Barsness GW, et al. Clinical characteristics and thrombolysis in myocardial infarction frame counts in women with transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome. Am J Cardiol. 2004;94:343-346. (Pubitemid 38962701)
19. Cherian J, Angelis D, Filiberti A, et al. Recurrence of stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy. Cardiology. 2007;108:144-146. (Pubitemid 47295574)
20. Elkhateeb OE, Beydoun HK. Recurrent long QT syndrome and syncope in transient apical ballooning syndrome (takotsubo cardiomyopathy). Can J Cardiol. 2008;24:917-919.
21. Wittstein IS. Acute stress cardiomyopathy. Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2008;5:61-68.
22. 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.
23. Abu-Fanne R, Rott D, Klein M, et al. Recurrent apical ballooning despite treatment with verapamil. Cardiology. 2007;108:210-213. (Pubitemid 47525220)
24. Akashi YJ, Sakakibara M, Miyake F. Reversible left ventricular dysfunction "takotsubo" cardiomyopathy associated with pneumothorax. Heart. 2002;87:e1.
25. Nef HM, Möllmann H, Elsässer A. Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (apical ballooning). Heart. 2007;93:1309-1315. (Pubitemid 47492929)