Takotsubo cardiomyopathy associated with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome II
- Lim, Tingsong
- Murakami, Hironori
- Hayashi, Kentaro
- Watanabe, Hiroki
- Sasaki, Haruki
- Muto, Harutatsu
- Asano, Yoshikazu
- Miyamoto, Kenjiro
- Omoto, Yasuhiro
- Yamaguchi, Yasukazu
- Hirokami, Mitsugu
- Tanaka, Shigemichi
Publication date
April 2009
DOI Publisher
Japanese College of Cardiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. ISSN
0914-5087 Citation count (estimate)
6Abstract
SummaryTakotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a poorly understood condition in which patients with chest pain have a transient ampulla-shaped abnormality of the left ventriculogram, and intact coronary arteries. We report TCM in combination with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type II (APS II), which raises new questions about the pathogenesis of TCM
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