Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Presenting as Wellens’ Syndrome

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" Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Presenting as Wellens’ Syndrome "
Skjerli, Leif; Taylor, Scott; Ashurst, John

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	927831
Doc. No	:	LA73f7d6n5
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Skjerli, Leif; Taylor, Scott; Ashurst, John
Title & Author	:	Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Presenting as Wellens’ Syndrome [Article]\ Skjerli, Leif; Taylor, Scott; Ashurst, John
Title of Periodical	:	Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/3
Date	:	2017
Abstract	:	Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as apical ballooning syndrome and stress cardiomyopathy, is a transient systolic and diastolic left ventricular dysfunction with a variety of cardiac wall-motion abnormalities that is increasingly being associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Wellens’ syndrome is an electrocardiographic pattern in a pain-free patient that is indicative of critical occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery requiring immediate cardiac catheterization. The authors report a case of a patient presenting with electrocardiographic findings consistent with Wellens’ syndrome that was later found to have Takotsubo cardiomyopathy with angiographically normal coronary arteries on cardiac catheterization after a seizure.