We report on a 31-year-old woman requiring resuscitation because of ventricular fibrillation during a standard dental procedure with local anaesthesia. In cardiac ventriculography, reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy was diagnosed. Because of protracted cardiogenic shock early treatment with calcium sensitizers, as well as the use of an intra-aortic ballon pump (IABP) were necessary to achieve stable hemodynamics. Despite a maximum neuron-specific enolase value of 37.8 ng/ml, the patient was released from the hospital 19 days after admission without a neurological deficit and with completely restored cardiac function.
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