Mechanical Circulatory Support With Impella Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Recovery in Takotsubo Syndrome Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock and Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction

JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2019 Feb 25;12(4):e31-e32. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.10.046. Epub 2019 Jan 30.

Authors

Alessandro Beneduce¹, Letizia Fausta Bertoldi², Francesco Melillo², Luca Baldetti², Roberto Spoladore², Massimo Slavich², Michele Oppizzi², Alberto Margonato², Federico Pappalardo²

Affiliations

¹ Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Advanced Heart failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: beneduce.alessandro@hsr.it.
² Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Advanced Heart failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

PMID: 30711550
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.10.046

No abstract available

Keywords: Impella; Takotsubo syndrome; cardiogenic shock; left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Female
Heart-Assist Devices*
Humans
Prosthesis Design
Prosthesis Implantation / instrumentation*
Recovery of Function
Shock, Cardiogenic / diagnostic imaging
Shock, Cardiogenic / etiology
Shock, Cardiogenic / physiopathology
Shock, Cardiogenic / therapy*
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / complications
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / diagnostic imaging
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / physiopathology
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / therapy*
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Function, Left*
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / diagnostic imaging
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / etiology
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / physiopathology
Ventricular Outflow Obstruction / therapy*