A rare case of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy with variable forms of left ventricular dysfunction: a new entity.
We report a rare case of an 83-year-old woman with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy, who presented with variable forms of left ventricular dysfunction during her clinical course. The distribution regional wall-motion abnormalities of the left ventricle on echocardiography had changed from a mid-ventricular ballooning type to the apical ballooning type 3 days from the onset. We suggest that these findings may indicate a new or variant entity of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy.
Yoshida
Tetsuro
T
Nishizawa
Toshihisa
T
Yajima
Kazuhiro
K
Tsuruoka
Mariko
M
Fujimaki
Tetsuo
T
Oguri
Mitsutoshi
M
Kato
Kimihiko
K
Hibino
Takeshi
T
Ohte
Nobuyuki
N
Yokoi
Kiyoshi
K
Kimura
Genjiro
G
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging