• Revista médica de Chile · Dec 2021

    Case Reports

    [Takotsubo syndrome associated with an earthquake. report of two cases].

    • Rienzi Díaz-Navarro, Daniel Poloni-Izeta, and Danilo Silva-González.
    • Departamento de Medicina Interna, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Chile.
    • Rev Med Chil. 2021 Dec 1; 149 (12): 1801-1805.

    AbstractTakotsubo syndrome is an acute heart disease usually triggered by significant emotional or physical stress, very occasionally described in association with natural disasters such as earthquakes. Clinically, it simulates an acute myocardial infarction with similar symptoms, laboratory tests, and electrocardiographic changes. Coronary angiography shows the absence of significant coronary disease. We report two women, aged 71 and 80 years, and who developed a Takotsubo syndrome after an earthquake. In both, the syndrome was diagnosed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

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