title: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a 90-year-old Chinese man.
abstract: A 90-year-old Chinese man was transferred to the Emergency Department of the Affiliated Shantou Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University for treatment of an acute myocardial infarction. He suffered chest pain with three days of cough, dyspnea and fever. A diagnosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was made in normal coronary arteries from urgent coronary angiography and characteristic apical dyskinesis and basal hyper contractility in left ventriculography. The patient died from severe multi-organ failure on the second day of hospitalization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Shantou Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shantou, Guangdong 515031, China.
authors.forename: Rong-he
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Dan-qing
authors.initials: DQ
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Gui-zhou
authors.initials: GZ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Zhi-xiong
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Chu-min
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhi-dan
authors.initials: ZD
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yan-hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Guo-hong
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Jian-qiang
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging