Relation between stress cardiomyopathy and hemorrhagic stroke.
We present the case of an 89-year-old woman with no previous cardiovascular disease who presented a stress cardiomyopathy secondary to acute hemorrhagic stroke. Contrast and two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography was helpful to perform the diagnosis and the follow-up.
Mansencal
Nicolas
N
N'Guetta
Roland
R
Desperramons
Julien
J
Dubourg
Olivier
O
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020300:Intracranial Hemorrhages / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D020521:Stroke / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology