• Am J Emerg Med · Nov 2012

    Case Reports

    ED echo of reverse Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: a rare and misleading finding.

    • Scott Bomann and Iain O Davies.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Wellington Hospital, Wellington South 6242, New Zealand. sbomann@msn.com
    • Am J Emerg Med. 2012 Nov 1;30(9):2088.e3-5.

    AbstractTako-tsubo transient cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a syndrome of specific myocardial wall motion abnormalities that appear in response to extreme physiological or emotional stress. The patients have normal coronary arteries and usually present as new-onset heart failure or acute coronary syndrome. We report on a 48-year-old woman with post-community cardiac arrest presenting as an acute myocardial infarction. An emergency physician–performed echocardiogram showed significant wall motion abnormalities, suggesting myocardial infarction. Cardiac catheterization revealed patent epicoronary circulation, and ventriculography demonstrated a rare and only recently described variant of TCM:“reverse” TCM. The patient subsequently died from a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

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