title: [Transient ventricular dysfunction (Takotsubo cardiomyopathy)].
abstract: The patient was a male with myasthenia gravis, hospitalized with acute respiratory failure due to decompensation of the underlying disease. He evolved with findings suggestive of acute myocardial infarction, with electrocardiographic and enzymatic alterations compatible with that diagnosis. The patient underwent emergency coronary angiography, which showed no severe coronary obstruction, although his left ventricle had significant systolic dysfunction with characteristic alterations, on ventriculography, of the syndrome described as transient ventricular dysfunction or Takotsubo syndrome. On evolution, complete recovery of the electrocardiographic alterations and systolic ventricular function assessed on echocardiography occurred, confirming the syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP. jmarconi@cardiol.br
authors.forename: José Marconi Almeida de
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.forename: Marcos
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knobel
authors.forename: Gustavo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Buchelle
authors.forename: José Augusto M de
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.forename: Cláudio H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Born
authors.forename: Nelson
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Akamine
authors.forename: Elias
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Knobel
mesh_terms: D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013577:Syndrome; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis*