Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: An Unusual Case Report in a Patient Affected with Alzheimer’s Disease

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Pietro Gareri Valeria Graziella Laura Manfredi

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Pietro Gareri
Center for Cognitive Disorders and Dementia, Catanzaro Lido, ASP Catanzaro

A B S T R A C T

We describe a case report regarding an elderly woman affected with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), presenting to the ER for chest pain, and showing ST-segment elevation on electrocardiography, and elevated cardiac enzyme levels. She was hospitalized and after a number of laboratory and instrumental exams she was diagnosed Tako-tsubo syndrome. One year after the event she is feeling fine, electrocardiogram is normal, and no symptoms of cardiac heart failure are present. Tako-tsubo syndrome is a stress-induced cardiomyopathy that involves left ventricular apical akinesis and mimics acute coronary syndrome. It was first described in Japan in 1991, it is rare (1:36.000) with 1:3 male/female ratio and survival is usually 96%. The novelty of this case-report is due to its rarity and to the onset of the disease in an elderly patient affected with AD.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Sun 08, Sep 2019
Accepted: Mon 23, Sep 2019
Published: Mon 30, Sep 2019

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© 2023 Pietro Gareri. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.NNB.2019.03.02