The three faces of takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a single patient

Abstract

While the classical apical ballooning takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) was first reported in the 1990s, the rarer mid‐ventricular and basal variants were not formally recognized until recently and they remain poorly understood. In this case report, we describe a 67‐year‐old woman who, during her hospitalization for a subarachnoid hemorrhage and subsequent readmission, experienced multiple complications, each of which resulted in a different variant of TC. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a single patient developing all three variants of TC.

Oxidative Stress in Takotsubo Syndrome—Is It Essential for an Acute Attack? Indirect Evidences Support Multisite Impact Including the Calcium Overload—Energy Failure Hypothesis

“…Subsequent adjustment of metabolic functions may lead to restoration of dynamic equilibrium. An example could be the recent case report describing the development of three forms of TTS in a single patient with intracerebral hemorrhage, where several sources of OS can be identified ( 252 ). Possible relationships between TTS, OS and cardiovascular pathologies are shown in Figure 2 .…”