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Complete Heart Block Complicating Takotsubo Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: An 81-year-old woman presents with shortness of breath resulting in a diagnosis of picornavirus and complete heart block. Troponin was elevated and there was concern about acute coronary syndrome. The final diagnosis after echocardiogram and coronary angiogram was Takotsubo syndrome in addition to the heart block which required pacemaker insertion.

SUBMITTER: McGee MJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7453273 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Complete Heart Block Complicating Takotsubo Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review.

McGee Michael J MJ Yu William W McCarthy Joshua J Barlow Malcolm M Hackworthy Rosemary R

Case reports in cardiology 20200819

An 81-year-old woman presents with shortness of breath resulting in a diagnosis of picornavirus and complete heart block. Troponin was elevated and there was concern about acute coronary syndrome. The final diagnosis after echocardiogram and coronary angiogram was Takotsubo syndrome in addition to the heart block which required pacemaker insertion. ...[more]

PMID: 32923000

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