Author/Authors :
Dalia, Tarun University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA , Amr, Bashar S. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine - University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA , Agrawal, Ankit Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Saint Peters University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA , Gautam, Archana Montgomery Internal Medicine Residency Program - University of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama, USA , Rakesh Sethapati, Venkata Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine - University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA , Kvapil, Jared Department of Cardiovascular Medicine - University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
Abstract :
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), also known as broken heart syndrome or stress-induced cardiomyopathy, is a rare condition
with an estimated incidence of 0.02% of all hospitalizations in United States and 2% of all acute coronary syndrome presentations.
TCM predominately presents as a transient wall motion abnormality of the left ventricular apex due to emotional or physical stress.
Cardiac rupture in the setting of TCM is an extremely rare phenomenon with limited published case reports. We present a case of a
75-year-old female who had cardiac rupture secondary to TCM and performed a literature review using Ovid MEDLINE for
published cases showing this association. After the literature review, we found 20 cases showing this association, which are listed
in a tabular fashion.
