Transient mid-ventricular dyskinesia: a variant of Takotsubo syndrome.
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy is characterized by a reversible systolic left ventricular apical ballooning. A new pattern of dyskinesia in the absence of angiographic evidence of coronary artery stenosis has been indicated like a variant of takotsubo cardiomiopathy: mid-ventricular akinesis with preservation of apical and basal contractilities revealed at echocardiograms and ventriculographies. We report the case of a 65 years old patient with this pattern, reverted in 4 weeks.
Fazio
Giovanni
G
Novo
Giuseppina
G
Azzarelli
Salvatore
S
Evola
Salvatore
S
Barbaro
Giuseppe
G
Sutera
Loredana
L
Di Gesaro
Gabriele
G
Akashi
Yoshihiro J
YJ
Novo
Salvatore
S
D000368:Aged; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*