Transesophageal echo diagnosis of perioperative unusual transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome

Hugo Andrés Mantilla, Felix Ramón Montes, William F Amaya

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia 2016 19(4):733-736

Stress cardiomyopathy, or Takotsubo syndrome, is a widely recognized cardiac pathology with a clinical presentation similar to acute coronary syndrome and related to physical or emotional stress. Perioperatively, it is challenging to identify it given the variety of forms and scenarios in which it can present. We describe a 22-year-old patient with an atypical presentation of Takotsubo syndrome during anesthesia induction, which highlights the usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography for the initial diagnosis.

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