Complete Heart Block: A Rare Complication of Takotsubo Syndrome

Takotsubo syndrome was believed to be a rare acute cardiac event until recently with takotsubo cardiomyopathy being its most commonly recognized and often the diagnostic feature. Its diagnosis is becoming increasingly common with varied clinical manifestations most of whom have favorable clinical ou...

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Autores principales: Sakul, N. F. N., Shrestha, Srijan, Balabbigari, Nikhita, Talati, Sapan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6803752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31687216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2576373
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author Sakul, N. F. N.
Shrestha, Srijan
Balabbigari, Nikhita
Talati, Sapan
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description Takotsubo syndrome was believed to be a rare acute cardiac event until recently with takotsubo cardiomyopathy being its most commonly recognized and often the diagnostic feature. Its diagnosis is becoming increasingly common with varied clinical manifestations most of whom have favorable clinical outcomes, yet it can be associated with life-threatening complications. We report a case of takotsubo syndrome leading to complete heart block which is a unique complication of an otherwise self-resolving disease.
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spelling pubmed-68037522019-11-04 Complete Heart Block: A Rare Complication of Takotsubo Syndrome Sakul, N. F. N. Shrestha, Srijan Balabbigari, Nikhita Talati, Sapan Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Takotsubo syndrome was believed to be a rare acute cardiac event until recently with takotsubo cardiomyopathy being its most commonly recognized and often the diagnostic feature. Its diagnosis is becoming increasingly common with varied clinical manifestations most of whom have favorable clinical outcomes, yet it can be associated with life-threatening complications. We report a case of takotsubo syndrome leading to complete heart block which is a unique complication of an otherwise self-resolving disease. Hindawi 2019-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6803752/ /pubmed/31687216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2576373 Text en Copyright © 2019 N. F. N. Sakul et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Complete Heart Block: A Rare Complication of Takotsubo Syndrome
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31687216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/2576373
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