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Apical Thrombus Associated with Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Young Woman
Author(s) -
Tobar Ricardo,
Rotzak Renee,
Rozenman Yoseph
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00826.x
Subject(s) - thrombus , cardiomyopathy , medicine , cardiology , heart failure
We report a case of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy complicated by left ventricular apical thrombus in a young woman; the thrombus and wall motion abnormalities disappeared after 3 weeks of anticoagulant therapy. These findings suggest that appropriate anticoagulation therapy should be performed in patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy until wall motion abnormalities improve .