The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and acute coronary syndrome are often clinically indistinguishable, making their differentiation challenging for physicians. We present a case of a 65-year-old female who presented with acute chest pain, shortness of breath, and a recent psychosocial stressor. This is a uniq...

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Autores principales: Ghobrial, Mike, Karan, Abhinav, Omar, Michael, Velarde, Gladys
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10106009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37073186
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36277
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author Ghobrial, Mike
Karan, Abhinav
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description Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and acute coronary syndrome are often clinically indistinguishable, making their differentiation challenging for physicians. We present a case of a 65-year-old female who presented with acute chest pain, shortness of breath, and a recent psychosocial stressor. This is a unique case in which our patient, with known history of coronary artery disease and recent percutaneous intervention, favored a misleading initial diagnosis of non-ST elevation myocardial infarction.
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spelling pubmed-101060092023-04-17 The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease Ghobrial, Mike Karan, Abhinav Omar, Michael Velarde, Gladys Cureus Cardiology Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and acute coronary syndrome are often clinically indistinguishable, making their differentiation challenging for physicians. We present a case of a 65-year-old female who presented with acute chest pain, shortness of breath, and a recent psychosocial stressor. This is a unique case in which our patient, with known history of coronary artery disease and recent percutaneous intervention, favored a misleading initial diagnosis of non-ST elevation myocardial infarction. Cureus 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10106009/ /pubmed/37073186 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36277 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ghobrial et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease
title The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease
title_full The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease
title_fullStr The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease
title_full_unstemmed The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease
title_short The Stressed Heart: A Case Report of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Known Coronary Artery Disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10106009/
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