title: [Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: a rare and badly known clinical entity].
abstract: Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy or "transient left ventricular (LV) apical ballooning" clinically presents like acute myocardial infarction without angiographic stenosis on coronary angiogram and a transient (reversible) LV apical ballooning. We discuss here about a 56-year-old woman complains of first constrictive chest pain with ST elevation in leads V2-V6 and minimal enzymatic release. Coronary angiogram demonstrates vessels without stenosis and the left ventriculogram an extensive LV apical wall motion abnormalities. LV dysfunction will only be transient since 24 hours after admission echographic images demonstrate quite complete recovery of LV systolic function. The pain disappears 12 hours after admission and the creatine kinase level normalize after 48 hours.
authors.affiliation: Service de Medicine Interne, Centre Hositalier Universitaire Vaudois, CHUV, Lausanne, Suisse. Chryssovalandou.Stelios@hospvd.ch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stelios
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Forclaz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eeckhout
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Waeber
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Roguelov
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Seravalli
mesh_terms: D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000097:blood; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis*
chemical_list: D003402:Creatine Kinase