Apical ballooning syndrome (ABS), also known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, was first reported by Dote and colleagues in Japanese literature in 1991 in a review of five cases. Case series have highlighted the association of severe psychological stressors as the major precipitating factors of this syndrome. Status Epilepticus and Sub-Arachnoid hemorrhage are also now established independent etiolo...

The recurrence of left ventricular apical ballooning (LVAB) or tako-tsubo syndrome seems to be rare. Little data exists regarding the recurrence of the disease, especially over the long-term follow-up. We present a case of relapse of LVAB after ten years.

Tako-tsubo syndrome is very rare in male patients, often overlooked by practitioners in its atypical form painless, and who did not always a good prognostic, often revealed in a context of acute stress at any time in the hospital or outside, its pathophysiology remains to discuss, the diagnosis is greatly facilitated by imaging including echocardiography with apical ballooning. We relate this c...

Stress-induced cardiomyopathy, also referred to Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or apical ballooning syndrome presents in perioperative period. We demonstrated a case of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy recognized after general anesthesia for bladder hydrodistension therapy as ambulatory surgery, which we surmise was due to inadequate blockage of surgical stress and sympathetic discharge against noxious stimu...

We describe a typical case of apical ballooning syndrome in an octogenarian female patient with left ventricular wall motion abnormality on electrocardiography, whose ventricular function returned to normal. The patient has allergic rhinitis and had used nasal decongestant excessively a few hours prior to the episode of pain.

BACKGROUND We describe a case of transient left midventricular ballooning in 68-year-old male patient presented with picture of acute coronary syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION The left ventriculogram showed mid ventricular akinesis and dilatation along with hypercontractile apex and basal segments. Follow up echocardiogram after one month showed resolution of wall motions abnormalities and normali...

Takotsubo Syndrome is a transient condition characterized by left ventricular systolic dysfunction with apical akinesis/dyskinesis and ballooning. Although the prognosis with medical management is excellent in most cases, rare cases of serious complications can occur. We present here a case of a 71-year-old woman presenting with acute decompensated heart failure with initial findings consistent...

1. Mansencal N, El Mahmoud R, Pillière R, Dubourg O. Relationship between pattern of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy and age: From mid-ventricular to apical ballooning syndrome. Int J Cardiol. 2008. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.06.009. 2. Yoshidaa T, Nishizawab T, Yajimaa K, Tsuruokab M, Fujimakia T, Oguria M, et al. A rare case of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy with variable forms of left ventricular dysfun...

Introduction Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is an acute cardiac syndrome with severe hypokinesia of the left ventricle (LV), often affecting the apex causing apical ballooning and heart failure. Sympathetic stress is a trigger of TCM and is probably underdiagnosed and not uncommon in ICU patients [1]. We have developed an experimental rat model of TCM, in which LV apical akinesia develops afte...