Cardiology · Cardiology / Cardiomyopathy
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
also: apical ballooning syndrome; broken heart syndrome; Stress cardiomyopathy
Transient left ventricular apical ballooning mimicking acute myocardial infarction, often after emotional or physical stress.
- Specialty
- Cardiology
- Subspecialty
- Cardiology / Cardiomyopathy
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, 10% of cases; Female: affected, 90% (mainly postmenopausal); Children: no
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- apical ballooning syndrome; broken heart syndrome; Stress cardiomyopathy
Etiology & mechanism
Catecholamine surge causing microvascular dysfunction and direct myocyte toxicity.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (8)
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Shares genes with
None.
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