Apical Ballooning
Gadolinium enhanced MRI in patients with left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome implicates myocarditis as an etiology
... ventricular apical ballooning syndrome (LVABS) is a clinical condition of unknown etiology, characterized by acute onset of atypical apical wall motion and absence of coronary artery ...
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Apical myocardial infarction with bizarre coronary images mimicking left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome: a case report
... ventricular apical ballooning syndrome (LVBS), also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is an emerging clinical entity presenting with acute chest pain or dyspnea, associated with new ST-T segment elevation ...
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Stress-coping skills and neuroticism in apical ballooning syndrome (Takotsubo/stress cardiomyopathy)
... Introduction: Apical ballooning syndrome (ABS) is typically associated with an antecedent stressful situation. Affected patients have been reported to have higher frequencies of premorbid affective ...
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Apical Ballooning Syndrome: Recent Insights from a Consecutive Series of 104 Patients
... of apical ballooning is the preponderance (80%) of postmenopausal women with this ...postmenopausal apical ballooning pa- tients compared with women with acute MI or with normal coronary ...
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Transient left ventricular apical ballooning and exercise induced hypertension during treadmill exercise testing: is there a common hypersympathetic mechanism?
... False positive results with exercise stress testing have been attributed to hypertensive response during stress [1,2]. Although the pathogenesis is unclear, possible mecha- nisms include subendocardial ischemia due to ...
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<em>Takotsubo</em> cardiomyopathy: etiology, diagnosis, and optimal management
... Abstract: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy or apical ballooning syndrome, is a condition of stress-induced apical hypokinesis in the setting of a preserved basal ...
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Case Report Successful rescue of one patient with acute myocardial infarction-like takotsubo cardiomyopathy accompanied by cardiogenic shock
... ventricular apical ballooning syndrome, broken heart syndrome, and stress or ampulla cardio- myopathy, is acute but reversible left ventricu- lar dysfunction triggered by acute emotional or physical stress ...
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Nightmare-Induced Atypical Midventricular Tako-Tsubo Cardiomyopathy
... or apical ballooning, is a reversible cardiomyopa- thy characterized by acute left ventricular (LV) segmental dysfunction, often precipitated by a psychophysical stressful event, whose clinical presentation ...
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Dobutamine stress echocardiography for assessing the role of dynamic intraventricular obstruction in left ventricular ballooning syndrome
... the apical region leading to myo- cardial ischemia on a hemodynamic basis; this hypothesis is supported by the fact that all 4 patients with severe dobutamine-induced obstruction showed a significant impairment in ...
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B type natriuretic peptide release and left ventricular filling pressure assessed by echocardiographic study after subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective study in non cardiac patients
... It has been suggested that the pathophysiology of neurogenic cardiac injury after SAH is probably similar to apical ballooning syndrome (ABS) (Tako-Tsubo or stress cardiomyopathy) [36,38]. Although there ...
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Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo) – broken heart and mind?
... the typical variant is the predominant type of stress-induced cardiac dysfunction or if it is simply more easily detected. It is possible that other types of SIC, as well as milder forms of “apical ...
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The catheter related tricuspid valve endocarditis in heart transplanted patient a case report and literature review
... An Iranian 78 years old woman with Hypertension and IDDM, with previous CVA, suddenly showed a greatly increased heart rate, and an electrocardiogram revealed elevated ST-segments Coronary angiography showed 3 vascular ...
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Tako Tsubo syndrome: A literature review and a case report
... “transient apical ballooning syndrome” or “stress cardio- myopathy”: this is a type of non-ischemic cardiomyopa- thy characterized by acute but rapidly reversible left ven- tricular (LV) dysfunction in ...
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Tako tsubo cardiomyopaty after femur fracture
... We present the case of an 86-year-old woman referred to us from Orthopaedics Division after surgical treatment for femur fracture without personal or family history of ischemic cardio- pathy. During hospitalization the ...
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Recurrent Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report and Review Article
... ABS is a unique acute cardiac syndrome and a recently recognized form of transient left ventricular dysfunction. It mimics ACS in clinical presentation (chest pain and dyspnea) and specific ECHO findings in the absence ...
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Takotsubo’s Cardiomyopathy in a Patient with Kartagener’s Syndrome
... reveals apical dyskinesia, the so-called apical ballooning, without any significant stenosis on coronary angiography [1, ...as apical ballooning syndrome, broken heart syndrome, and ...
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A case report of ventricular dysfunction post pericardiocentesis: stress cardiomyopathy or pericardial decompression syndrome?
... LV apical ballooning related to PDS as similar to SCM [10, 11, 15–17], and have postulated the physiological stressor being cardiac tamponade along with emotional stress ...
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a Caucasian Italian woman: Case report
... of apical ballooning with hyperkinesis of the basal segments and hypokinesis of the mid-apical ...of apical and mid-ventricular regional wall-motion ...
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Takotsubo syndrome in patients with myasthenia gravis: a systematic review of previously reported cases
... the apical and/or mid-segments of the left ventricle that mimics acute myocardial infarction but with no ob- structive coronary artery disease” ...cardiomyopathy, apical ballooning, apical ...
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Nonlinear ballooning modes in tokamaks : stability and saturation
... saturated ballooning states, ...the ballooning mode marginal stability boundary and so these modes are likely to appear if a critical perturbation is ...
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