Shohei Ikeda, Morihiko Takeda, Koichi Sato, Mariko Shinozaki, Satomi Watanabe, Keita Miki, Michinori Hirano, Koji Fukuda, Nobuyuki Shiba
UNLABELLED: The patient, a 68-year-old man, presented to our emergency room with chest pain, prompting an emergency cardiac catheterization due to elevated cardiac troponin-I levels. While no obvious coronary artery stenosis was found, there was evidence of apical ballooning wall motion in the left ventricle, leading to a diagnosis of takotsubo syndrome. Three months later, he occasionally experienced chest pain at rest, prompting us to conduct another cardiac catheterization. Left ventriculography showed normal contraction...
March 2024: Journal of Cardiology Cases