title: Tako-tsubo syndrome in a 12-year-old girl: exhausted heart, not broken heart.
abstract: We report the case of a 12-year-old girl with Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy. She was successfully treated in our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for acute left ventricular failure, which occurred after a brief submersion in sea water. At 2-month follow-up she showed an almost complete recovery of cardiac function. We consider Tako-tsubo syndrome, which is rarely reported in the pediatric population, to be the most likely diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital Center Rijeka, T Strizica 3, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia.
authors.forename: Sandro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dessardo
authors.forename: Vjekoslav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tomulić
authors.forename: Nada Sindičić
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Dessardo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D018450:Disease Progression; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*