"Once apical ballooning, always apical ballooning?".
It is important that a cardiologist knows and recognizes the entity of takotsubo cardiomyopathy or apical ballooning, but remains aware that a subsequent similar episode is not necessarily a recurrence of this syndrome. Relapse may be caused by "classical" coronary atherosclerosis, as described in this case report.
Vydt
Tom
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Dubois
Christophe
C
Papas
Christos
C
Sinnaeve
Peter
P
Desmet
Walter
W
D000328:Adult; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery