CMR to distinguish Takotsubo cardiomyopathy from myocardial infarction in acute course of ischemic stroke in a male patient

Int J Cardiol. 2015 Apr 1:184:397-398. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.02.063. Epub 2015 Feb 24.

Authors

Radoslaw Nowak¹, Milosz Jaguszewski², Marcin Fijalkowski¹, Marta Fijalkowska¹, Marcin Gruchala¹

Affiliations

¹ First Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland.
² First Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland; Department of Cardiology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charite, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: mjaguszewski@gumed.edu.pl.

PMID: 25746493
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.02.063

No abstract available

Keywords: CMR; Stroke; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Brain / diagnostic imaging
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography / methods
Electrocardiography / methods
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / methods*
Male
Middle Aged
Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis*
Natriuretic Peptide, Brain / blood
Stroke* / diagnostic imaging
Stroke* / etiology
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy* / blood
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy* / complications
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy* / diagnosis
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy* / physiopathology
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy* / therapy
Thrombolytic Therapy / methods*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods
Treatment Outcome
Troponin I / blood

Substances

Troponin I
Natriuretic Peptide, Brain