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- Title
DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS BETWEEN PATIENTS WITH APICAL AND NON-APICAL SUBTYPES OF STRESS-INDUCED CARDIOMYOPATHY.
- Authors
SUN HWA LEE; WON HO KIM; SANG ROK LEE; KYUNG SUK RHEE; JAE KI KO
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SCM) is characterized by apical ballooning on echocardiography, but some of SCM patients show non-apical involvement and their characteristics are not well defined. METHODS: We investigated 56 patients that were diagnosed as SCM and divided them into 2 groups: apical ballooning syndrome (ABS, n = 49, 87.5%) and non-apical ballooning syndrome (N-ABS, n = 7, 12.5%) groups. Patients with N-ABS were significantly younger than those of the ABS group (52 ± 11 vs. 73 ± 10 years, p < 0.001). RESULTS: Types of preceding stressors and clinical presentation including chest pain, pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock and in-hospital mortality were comparable between the two groups. In the N-ABS group, wall motion score index was significantly lower than in the ABS group (1.61 ± 0.35 vs. 1.93 ± 031, p = 0.016). On electrocardiogram (ECG), T-wave inversion (57.1% vs. 95.8%,p < 0.001) were less frequent in the N-ABS than in the ABS group. Furthermore, maximum QT and corrected QT (QTc) intervals in the N-ABS patients were significantly shorter than the ABS patients (QT, 419-9 ± 66.1 vs. 487.3 ± 79.6 ms,p = 0.038; QTc, 479.0 ± 61.9 vs. 568.0 ± 50.5 ms,p < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Patients with the N-ABS showed not only atypical echocardiographic findings, but also atypical clinical and ECG manifestations. Integrated consideration is needed to reach a diagnosis of the non-apical subtype of SCM.
- Subjects
CARDIOMYOPATHIES; PHYSIOLOGICAL stress; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PULMONARY edema; CARDIOGENIC shock
- Publication
Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2013, Vol 21, Issue 3, p116
- ISSN
1975-4612
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4250/jcu.2013.21.3.116