Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

A 70-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital due to difficulty in moving her limbs. She had trismus and a necrotic and contaminated wound in her left lower leg. A diagnosis of tetanus was confirmed and intensive care was started. On the second day, her blood pressure fell and a ST segment elevat...

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Autores principales: Araki, Taisuke, Iwanami, Naoya, Yamazaki, Yoshitaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6702011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30918197
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2494-18
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author Araki, Taisuke
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description A 70-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital due to difficulty in moving her limbs. She had trismus and a necrotic and contaminated wound in her left lower leg. A diagnosis of tetanus was confirmed and intensive care was started. On the second day, her blood pressure fell and a ST segment elevation on electrocardiography (ECG) was detected. She was diagnosed with takotsubo cardiomyopathy by echocardiogram and improved undergoing conservative therapy.
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spelling pubmed-67020112019-08-21 Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Araki, Taisuke Iwanami, Naoya Yamazaki, Yoshitaka Intern Med Case Report A 70-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital due to difficulty in moving her limbs. She had trismus and a necrotic and contaminated wound in her left lower leg. A diagnosis of tetanus was confirmed and intensive care was started. On the second day, her blood pressure fell and a ST segment elevation on electrocardiography (ECG) was detected. She was diagnosed with takotsubo cardiomyopathy by echocardiogram and improved undergoing conservative therapy. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019-03-28 2019-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6702011/ /pubmed/30918197 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2494-18 Text en Copyright © 2019 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
title Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
title_full Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
title_fullStr Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
title_full_unstemmed Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
title_short Severe Tetanus Complicated by Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
title_sort severe tetanus complicated by takotsubo cardiomyopathy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6702011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30918197
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.2494-18
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