Takotsubo syndrome with underlying pheochromocytoma

作     者：Tooba Sahar Asaad Akbar Khan Raja Wajid Shabbir Tooba Sahar;Asaad Akbar Khan;Raja Wajid Shabbir

作者机构：Cardiology DepartmentShifa International HospitalIslamabadPakistan 

出 版 物：《Journal of Geriatric Cardiology》 (老年心脏病学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第18卷第12期

页      面：1068-1070页

核心收录：

学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含：心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：acute cardiomyopathy al. 

摘      要：Takotsubo cardiomyopathy(TTC),also re-ferred as broken heart syndrome,is a type of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy usually preceded by exposure to significant physical or emotional stress.[1]Reported by Sato,et al.[2]in 1990 for the first time,the condition resembles acute coronary syndrome(ACS),characterised by chest pain and dyspnoea.[3]ST-segment elevation and/or T wave inversion and pathological Q waves are pre-sent in almost 40%of patients on electrocardiogram.[4]It is recently established that TTC causative factor is not only an acute emotional stress,but also sudden intracranial events,including haemorrhage,trauma and ischemic events;acute medical diseases such as sepsis and surgical interventions;increased secre-tion of endogenous catecholamines(pheochromocy-toma);and administration of exogenous catechola-minergic agents can contribute to the disease *** has been recognized by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association as a dis-tinctive form of reversible cardiomyopathy.