Not What It Looks Like: A Transient Cardiomyopathy

Piccirillo, Bryan; Gavin, Michael C.; Chang, James D.

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.02.006

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“…Of a total of 1725 articles found [1341 with the precise Medical Subject Headings term (TTC)], we selected 26 articles dealing with 27 case reports (Table 1), 12 –37 with an expected higher prevalence of women (n = 20, 74.1%). The mean age was 61.4 ± 13.7 years and bacterial infections were more frequent (n = 23, 85.2%).…”

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Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Acute Infectious Diseases

et al. 2014

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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC), also defined as "stress cardiomyopathy," is characterized by a systolic dysfunction localized in the apical and medial left ventricles. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is more prevalent in females and it is usually related to an event triggered by physical or emotional stress. We systematically explored PubMed and Embase medical information source to identify case reports showing association between infection and TTC. For each kind of infection, we collected a set of data, including pathogen, site of infection, clinical outcome, patient age and sex, and author and year of publication. We found 26 articles dealing with 27 case reports (74% women). The mean age was 61.4 ± 13.7 years and bacterial infections were more frequent (n = 23, 85.2%). In 14 cases, there was a culture-based definition of the bacterial strain: gram+ in 8 cases (57.1%) and gram- in 6 cases (42.9%). Clinical outcome was always favorable.

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