Transient mid-ventricular ballooning cardiomyopathy: a new entity of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
We present a case of a 64-year-old man with transient mid-ventricular ballooning cardiomyopathy. Left ventriculography showed morphological differences with ballooning around the whole mid-portion of the left ventricle, although precipitating factors and clinical courses were similar to Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. We suspect that transient mid-ventricular ballooning cardiomyopathy is a new pathological entity in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
Takanori
T
Yasu
Katsuyuki
K
Tone
Norifumi
N
Kubo
Muneyasu
M
Saito
D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology