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SUBMITTER: Sato Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7184076 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sato Yasue Y Matsumoto Kensuke K Sakai Jun J Nakamura Toshihiro T Tanaka Hidekazu H Hirata Kenichi K
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) 20191206 7
This case report concerns an 81-year-old woman with previously well-controlled hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). She was referred to our hospital because of the acute onset of takotsubo syndrome. Echocardiography revealed basal hyperkinesis due to takotsubo syndrome superimposed on septal hypertrophy, which resulted in the reappearance of prominent left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO). Although she developed cardiogenic shock triggered by atrial fibrillation, LVOTO wa ...[more]