Recurrent left ventricular apical ballooning induced by recurrent stress.
This paper reports on a 67-year-old woman with apical ballooning and recurrent dyskinesia of left ventricular wall. During MRI-examination the patient developed severe apical dyskinesia of the left ventricle induced by agoraphobia in the magnet.
Kleinfeldt
Tilo
T
Severin
Raik
R
Lischke
Stefan
S
Ince
Hueseyin
H
Nienaber
Christoph A
CA
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012008:Recurrence; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology