Open AccessDressler’s syndrome as a complication of apical ballooning cardiomyopathy
Author(s) -
I Davarshvili,
Sarit Hochberg-Klein,
Klein Ed
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
case reports in internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2332-7251
pISSN - 2332-7243
DOI - 10.5430/crim.v4n4p10
Subject(s) - cardiomyopathy , medicine , chest pain , ballooning , complication , cardiology , acute coronary syndrome , surgery , heart failure , myocardial infarction , quantum mechanics , tokamak , physics , plasma
We report a case of 62-year-old female patient diagnosed with apical ballooning syndrome (Takotsubo) based on typical apical ballooning with normal coronaries in the setting of chest pain and ST elevation MI. Ten days after her initial hospitalization she was diagnosed with pleuropericarditis based on chest pain, pleuropericadial effusion and inflammatory markers.This case report shows the rare complication of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) – Dressler’s syndrome.