Cardiomiopatía de Takotsubo

ABSTRACT: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or stress-induced cardiomyopathy is often diagnosed as an acute coronary syndrome in postmenopausal women, because its clinical presentation may mimic an acute myocardial infarction: anginal chest pain, changes in the ST segment and T wave in precordial leads and elevated cardiac biomarkers of necrosis. It is characterized by systolic dysfunction with transient ballooning of the apical and middle portions of the left ventricle, in the absence of significant coronary disease. Prognosis is good and complete recovery occurs in days to weeks. We report three cases of postmenopausal women with initial diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction; no significant coronary lesions were found in the coronary angiography; apical ballooning, characteristic of this syndrome, was observed on left ventriculography. On follow-up, the three patients had complete recovery of systolic function at six weeks.

• Autores: Sénior Sánchez, Juan Manuel; Tamayo Artunduaga, Natalia; Fernández Cadavid, Andrés; Rodríguez Dimuro, Arturo
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/11642
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/10495/11642
• Palabra clave: Cardiomiopatía de Takotsubo; Insuficiencia Cardíaca; Síndrome Coronario Agudo; Acute Coronary Syndrome; Heart Failure; Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 2.5 Colombia (CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CO)