Acute myocardial infarction triggering Takotsubo syndrome, and the need to search for its prevalence

作     者：John E.Madias 

作者机构：Division of Cardiology Elmhurst Hospital Center 79-01 Broadway Elmhurst NY 11373 

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

年 卷 期：2014年第11卷第3期

页      面：278-278页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 0832[工学-食品科学与工程（可授工学、农学学位）] 1002[医学-临床医学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0836[工学-生物工程] 071002[理学-动物学] 082203[工学-发酵工程] 0822[工学-轻工技术与工程] 083203[工学-农产品加工及贮藏工程] 

主　　题：Myocardial infarction  Takotsubo syndrome  Percutaneous coronary intervention 

摘      要：To the Editor The interesting report by Redfors, et aL[1] in the June issue of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, about an 88-year-old woman who presented with chest pain, found on echocardiography （ECHO） to have transient left ventricular apical akinesis with a hypercontractile base, and an occluded first diagonal coronary branch with suspected acute plaque rupture, on coronary angiography, treated with a percutaneous coronary intervention, for which the authors concluded that the observed extent of akinesis was disproportionally large for the occluded coronary lesion, letting them to deduce that the acute myocardial infarction （AMI） caused the episode of Takotsubo syndrome （TTS）, reminds me of a similar case of an AMI due to stent thrombosis and a resultant associated TTS.