• Fan Wang and Wei Wen.
• Department of Emergency, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, P.R. China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Dec 1; 97 (50): e13718.

RationaleTakotsubo syndrome (TTS) most commonly occurs in postmenopausal women who have been exposed to a triggering event such as acute physical or emotional distress. Sepsis-induced TTS in young premenopausal women were rarely reported. In particular, the relationship between sepsis-induced TTS and sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy (SIC) remains to be illuminated.Patient ConcernsTwo young premenopausal women were admitted to the hospital with sepsis and myocardial involvement.DiagnosisBoth patients fully met the Mayo Clinic criteria for TTS.InterventionsBoth patients received anti-infection and fluid infusion treatment.OutcomesBoth patients were discharged without complications and the follow-up ultrasonic echocardiography showed normal results.LessonsIn this report, we describe 2 young premenopausal women with sepsis-induced TTS. There is an overlap between sepsis-induced TTS and SIC, and SIC could be a special type of TTS, which occurs under the stress of sepsis.

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