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Case Reports
. 2020 Feb 27;4(4):204-207.
doi: 10.1016/j.case.2020.01.009. eCollection 2020 Aug.

One Patient, Three Variants, Four Episodes of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

Eitan Frankel  1 , Patrick Prior  1 , Hetal Mehta  1 , Priya Rajagopalan  1 , David H Wiener  1 , Andrew Rose  2 , Gregary D Marhefka  1
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Case Reports

One Patient, Three Variants, Four Episodes of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

Eitan Frankel et al. CASE (Phila). .
No abstract available

Keywords: Echocardiography; Recurrent; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; Variant.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Serial echocardiograms. This is a chronological reporting of the available echocardiograms between July 2017 and May 2019. Given that the patient presented to multiple hospitals and providers with different electronic medical records, not all the images were available to be reviewed. Locations at which reviewed echocardiograms were performed included Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH), local outside hospitals (OSH), and a private cardiologist's office. For each echocardiogram, when available, both the images and reports were reviewed. This figure highlights the multiple variants of TCM that are explored in this report.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Normal echocardiographic findings. TTE demonstrating hyperdynamic LV function with no segmental wall motion abnormalities. Apical two-chamber view (A) and apical four-chamber view (B).
Figure 3
Figure 3
Apical-variant TCM. TTE demonstrating apical ballooning with midventricular and apical akinesis with preservation of the basal segments. Apical two-chamber view (A) and apical four-chamber view (B).
Figure 4
Figure 4
Midventricular-variant TCM. TTE demonstrating midventricular-variant akinesis with preservation of the apical and basal segments. Apical two-chamber view (A) and apical four-chamber view (B).
Figure 5
Figure 5
Basal-variant TCM. TTE demonstrating basal akinesis (reverse pattern). Apical two-chamber view (A) and apical four-chamber view (B).
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