Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is usually a transient condition and is treated conservatively. It is rarely associated with ventricular free wall rupture, a fatal complication of the disease described in this report. Cardiothoracic surgery performed emergent ventricular wall repair; however, treatment was...

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Autores principales: Al-Tkrit, Amna, Mekaiel, Andrew, Aneeb, Mohammad, Alawawdeh, Firas, Mangla, Aditya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282591
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11316
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author Al-Tkrit, Amna
Mekaiel, Andrew
Aneeb, Mohammad
Alawawdeh, Firas
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description Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is usually a transient condition and is treated conservatively. It is rarely associated with ventricular free wall rupture, a fatal complication of the disease described in this report. Cardiothoracic surgery performed emergent ventricular wall repair; however, treatment was unsuccessful, and the patient expired.
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spelling pubmed-77147252020-12-05 Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication Al-Tkrit, Amna Mekaiel, Andrew Aneeb, Mohammad Alawawdeh, Firas Mangla, Aditya Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is usually a transient condition and is treated conservatively. It is rarely associated with ventricular free wall rupture, a fatal complication of the disease described in this report. Cardiothoracic surgery performed emergent ventricular wall repair; however, treatment was unsuccessful, and the patient expired. Cureus 2020-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7714725/ /pubmed/33282591 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11316 Text en Copyright © 2020, Al-Tkrit et al. http://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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Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication
title Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication
title_full Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication
title_fullStr Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication
title_full_unstemmed Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication
title_short Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in Broken-Heart Syndrome: A Fatal Complication
title_sort left ventricular free wall rupture in broken-heart syndrome: a fatal complication
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7714725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282591
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11316
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