A Rare Form of Midventricular Tako-Tsubo After Emotional Stress Followed up With Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Zendy

Henning Steen | Zendy; Constanze Merten | Zendy; Hugo A. Katus | Zendy; Evangelos Giannitsis | Zendy

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A Rare Form of Midventricular Tako-Tsubo After Emotional Stress Followed up With Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Author(s) -

Henning Steen,

Constanze Merten,

Hugo A. Katus,

Evangelos Giannitsis

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.105.609750

Subject(s) - medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , emotional stress , stress (linguistics) , cardiology , nuclear magnetic resonance , radiology , philosophy , linguistics , physics

A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our emergency room with acute onset of typical chest pain that started during an emotionally stressful psychotherapeutic treatment. The patient’s history revealed no cardiovascular risk factors and the initial ECG was unspecific. Blood tests performed concomitantly revealed mild elevation of cardiac troponin T and creatinine kinase levels. Consequently, the patient was referred to our catheter laboratory for treatment of a suspected acute coronary syndrome. Coronary luminography …

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