A case of myasthenia gravis with takotsubo cardiomyopathy presenting with respiratory and cardiac arrest

Chunhua Hu^#^{1

2}, Suya Bao^#^{1

3}, Jianwen Lin¹, Shumin Li¹, Lu Wang¹, Wenxin Liu^{1

3}, Ziqi Han^{1

3}, Yi Liu^{4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Central Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
² China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
³ Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Central Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. letaliu@bjmu.edu.cn.
⁵ China Medical University, Shenyang, China. letaliu@bjmu.edu.cn.
⁶ Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China. letaliu@bjmu.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 40906015
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-025-01156-2

A case of myasthenia gravis with takotsubo cardiomyopathy presenting with respiratory and cardiac arrest

Chunhua Hu et al. Clin Auton Res. 2025.

. 2025 Sep 4.

doi: 10.1007/s10286-025-01156-2. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Chunhua Hu^#^{1

2}, Suya Bao^#^{1

3}, Jianwen Lin¹, Shumin Li¹, Lu Wang¹, Wenxin Liu^{1

3}, Ziqi Han^{1

3}, Yi Liu^{4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Central Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.
² China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
³ Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Central Hospital of Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. letaliu@bjmu.edu.cn.
⁵ China Medical University, Shenyang, China. letaliu@bjmu.edu.cn.
⁶ Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China. letaliu@bjmu.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 40906015
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-025-01156-2

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac arrest; Catecholamines; Myasthenia gravis; Myasthenic crisis; Respiratory; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

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Declarations. Competing interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Not applicable; no ethics committee approval was required for this report, as it was a retrospective description of a single case. Consent for publication: Owing to a retrospective fully anonymized analysis of the patient data, consent for publication by the patients was not necessary to be obtained according to the local ethics guidelines.

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