Publication: Stress-induced transient midventricular ballooning: a new variant of broken heart syndrome
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2013-02-01
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Uluganyan, MAHMUT
Velibey, Yalcin
Calik, Nazmi
Orhan, Ahmet
Karaca, Gurkan
Tayyareci, Gulsah
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A 72-year-old female patient admitted to the emergency department with substernal chest pain due to vigorous emotional stress. Her electrocardiogram revealed negative T waves in DI, aVL, and V-1 to V-3 derivations, and she had an elevated troponin level. Cardiac catheterization was performed and showed angiographically normal epicardial coronary arteries. The left ventriculogram demonstrated midventricular dilatation and akinesis with a hypercontractile apex and base. We report a case of new variant of broken heart syndrome in which only the midventricle is affected.
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Uluganyan M., Velibey Y., Calik N., Orhan A., Karaca G., Tayyareci G., -Stress-induced transient midventricular ballooning: a new variant of broken heart syndrome-, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, cilt.31, 2013