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SUBMITTER: Bottiroli M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7754970 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ESC heart failure 20200904 6
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with cardiac injury have an increased risk of mortality. It remains to be determined the mechanism of cardiac injury and the identification of specific conditions that affect the heart during COVID-19. We present the case of a 76-year-old woman with COVID-19 pneumonia that developed a takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Although the patient presented normal left ventricular ejection fraction and normal levels of troponin on admission, after 16 days in intensive ...[more]