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Takotsubo syndrome in a heart transplant recipient with poor cardiac sympathetic reinnervation
- Source :
- ESC Heart Failure, ESC Heart Failure, Vol 7, Iss 3, Pp 1145-1149 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), also referred to as stress cardiomyopathy, is characterized by transient left ventricular apical ballooning in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Catecholamine‐induced cardiac injury or vasospasm has been implicated in this pathophysiology. We present a case of a 67‐year‐old man 10 years after heart transplantation diagnosed with TTS. Sympathetic reinnervation could not be detected by iodine‐123 meta iodobenzylguanidine uptake, suggesting that TTS can occur in the absence of functional sympathetic nerve systems reconstruction.
- Subjects :
- Male
lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
medicine.medical_specialty
Sympathetic Nervous System
medicine.medical_treatment
Cardiomyopathy
Case Report
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Coronary artery disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cardiac sympathetic reinnervation
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Internal medicine
medicine
123I‐MIBG scintigraphy
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Aged
Heart transplantation
Takotsubo syndrome
business.industry
Heart
Vasospasm
medicine.disease
Pathophysiology
3-Iodobenzylguanidine
medicine.anatomical_structure
lcsh:RC666-701
Heart failure
Cardiology
Heart Transplantation
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Reinnervation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20555822
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ESC Heart Failure
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....19ca1ba4970e2004fb9233d454892f8b