ALLMedicine™ Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Center

Oct 2nd, 2022 - Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is often associated with symptoms of heart failure (HF) during the acute phase of the disease. 3-dimensional optical coherence tomography (OCT) may be used to assess the extent of angiographically silent underlying coronar...

Sep 24th, 2022 - Myasthenic crisis (MC) is rarely associated with takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC), but embolic complications of MC-associated reverse TTC are yet to be documented. We present a case of a 70-year-old Caucasian female with MC-associated reverse TTC, d...

Sep 23rd, 2022 - BACKGROUND Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also referred to as apical ballooning syndrome (ABS), stress cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome, initially described in Japan, is characterized by transient wall motion abnormalities involving the apical ...

Sep 20th, 2022 - A woman in her 60s presented initially with nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. She rapidly progressed to respiratory failure requiring intubation. ECG demonstrated no significant ST segment changes. Troponin I and brain natriuretic peptide were ...

Sep 18th, 2022 - When a rare manifestation of a rare disease has an atypical form: Pheochromocytoma-associated Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.|2022|Zmaili M,|

Sep 7th, 2022 - Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is characterised by sudden onset left ventricular dysfunction precipitated by major stress. This neuro-cardiac condition has a 5-year morbidity and mortality comparable with acute myocardial infarction and no current thera...

Sep 2nd, 2022 - Acute takotsubo cardiomyopathy is characterised by sudden onset left ventricular dysfunction precipitated by major stress. The researchers have shown that recovery is more protracted than previously appreciated, and is associated with persistent m...

Sep 2nd, 2022 - Public Health Scotland will identify all patients centrally coded under codes I42.8 (Other cardiomyopathies), I42.9 (Cardiomyopathy, unspecified) and I51.8 (Other ill-defined heart diseases), using the Community Health Index (CHI) numbers from Jan...

Jul 1st, 2022 - Background The incidence of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage is 10/100000 person/year. Some epidemiological date suggest that the 30-day mortality of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is nearly 50%. (ACROSS Group. Epidemiology of aneurysmal subarach...

Jun 28th, 2022 - Data to be registered within 24 hours after admittance: Age of the patient Gender Comorbidities Currently taken medications The exact time point of bleeding Additional circumstances of the bleeding Physical stress factors Psychological stress fact...

Jun 27th, 2022 - The number of mass shootings in the US has jumped from 272 annually in 2014 to 692 annually in 2021. As these attacks have increased in frequency, averaging more than once daily since 2019, we've slowly become accustomed to their occurrence. Now, ...

Jun 3rd, 2022 - Is it possible to separate the heart from the mind? The answer is "no," according to specialists who met at the 39th Congress of the State of Rio de Janeiro Society of Cardiology (SOCERJ), an event held virtually in May. During a conference on men...

Sep 25th, 2019 - Note that some links may require subscriptions. Another person has died from "vaping illness," Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly announced -- bringing the national total to nine. In Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker imposed a 4-month ban on sales of all vap...

Jul 18th, 2019 - A history of cancer was noted in one in six patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as "broken heart syndrome," and was associated with reduced 5-year survival times, a new international study found. Malignancy was observed in 16.6% of ...

Apr 30th, 2019 - Upfront delayed-enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (DE-CMR) imaging identifies a different or new culprit lesion than standard angiography in nearly one in three patients presenting with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI),...