title: [The Takotsubo syndrome--a psychosomatic cardiac complication?].
abstract: This is a report on three postmenopausal women who presented with an acute coronary syndrome. The ECG and cardiac serum markers were supportive of the suspected diagnosis of myocardial infarction. A coronary angiography excluded the presence of macroangiopathy. Levocardiography revealed apical ballooning of the left ventricle. These findings are consistent with the recently described Takotsubo syndrome--and acute, presumably neurogenic, cardiomyopathy.
authors.affiliation: Klinik III für Innere Medizin, Universität zu Köln. roman.pfister@uk-koeln.de
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pfister
authors.forename: Erland
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Erdmann
authors.forename: Uta C
authors.initials: UC
authors.lastname: Hoppe
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000787:Angina Pectoris / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D013577:Syndrome; D020107:Troponin T / Q000097:blood*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D014694:Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D020107:Troponin T