BACKGROUND Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) is a rare disorder with high relevance for anaesthesia. It is an acute cardiac syndrome characterized by an acute onset of reversible left ventricular dysfunction associated with emotional and physical stress. This is the only case published of a patient having five severe Tako-Tsubo incidents in five consecutive general anaesthesia procedures within o...

IOM predstavljaju jednu od tri najčešće lokalizacije svih bolničkih infekcija (BI). U SAD one čine 14–16% BI . Kod operisanih bolesnika u ovoj zemlji to su najčešće od svih BI i zastupljene su sa 38% . Stopa incidencije IOM u drugim razvijenim zemljama se kreće od 2,2 5 do 4% , dok u nerazvijenim zemljama, odnosno zemljama u kojima sistem nadzora nad BI kao i njihova prevencija i kontrola nisu ...

A 57 year-old woman with no history of cardiac disease presented to the emergency department with confusion and seizures secondary to alcohol withdrawal. Elevated troponin levels and an electrocardiogram demonstrating global T-wave inversions prompted coronary angiography, which revealed coronary vessels free of significant disease. An echocardiogram showed both hypokinesis of the left-ventricu...

1990 by Satoh et al.1 This syndrome of transient left ventricular dysfunction in response to severe emotional stress or illness occurs in the setting of normal epicardial coronary arteries. Patients are most commonly females without prior history of cardiac disease. The syndrome consists of chest pain, EKG abnormalities and elevation of cardiac markers. The resulting left ventricular dysfunctio...

A 22-year-old male smoker with no other cardiovascular risk factors presented within the first hours after a successful appendicectomy with severe acute chest pain accompanied by nausea. An ECG showed ST-segment elevation in leads I, VL, V2V4 and concurrent ST-depression in leads II, III, VF (Fig. 1). He was immediately transferred to the CCU where chest pain was relieved after nitrate therapy....