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- Title
Late-onset takotsubo cardiomyopathy after acute pulmonary embolism.
- Authors
Wilk, Aleksandra; Król, Wojciech; Konopka, Marcin; Żarek-Starzewska, Anna; Braksator, Wojciech
- Abstract
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute condition characterized by a transient decrease of regional contractility most often involving apical segments of the left ventricle. The authors present the case report of an 87-year-old woman diagnosed with intermediate-high risk acute pulmonary embolism, previously discharged in a stable condition, who was presented again to the Emergency Department because of syncope and increasing levels of troponin. After differential diagnostics including coronary angiography and transthoracic echocardiography complemented by the longitudinal strain assessment with the use of speckle tracking echocardiography a diagnosis of takotsubo cardiomyopathy was made. This case shows the significance of strain echocardiography in diagnostics of TTS.
- Subjects
CARDIOMYOPATHIES; PULMONARY embolism; SYNCOPE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY angiography
- Publication
Folia Cardiologica, 2021, Vol 16, Issue 4, p248
- ISSN
2353-7752
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5603/FC.a2021.0034