Concomitant takotsubo cardiomyopathy with PRES syndrome: A coincidence or a real heart-brain connection?

Publication/Presentation Date

8-1-2015

Abstract

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a clinical entity characterized by reversible ventricular dysfunction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is another rare clinical syndrome characterized by reversible neurological symptoms. Concomitant occurrence is increasingly reported leading to credence to hypothesis of "heart-brain connection". We present a case of a 60-year-old female admitted for neurological symptoms who developed takotsubo cardiomyopathy within 24 h of admission.

Volume

12

Issue

2

First Page

48

Last Page

51

ISSN

1878-5409

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

PubMedID

30524539

Department(s)

Fellows and Residents

Document Type

Article

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