Takotsubo https://www.ecgguru.com/taxonomy/term/730/all en Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy https://www.ecgguru.com/ecg/takotsubo-cardiomyopathy-0 <div class="field field-name-field-ecg field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/ecg/takotsubo-cardiomyopathy-0"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.ecgguru.com/sites/default/files/Misc%20102%20Takotsubo.jpg" width="1100" height="451" alt="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-ecg-interpretation field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">This ECG is taken from an elderly woman with chest pressure radiating to left shoulder for 30 minutes.&nbsp; She also complained of nausea with vomiting.&nbsp; Her family offered a history of &nbsp;unspecified cardiac disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and dementia.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #222222;"><br /> <br /> The ECG shows ST elevation in Leads I and aVL, with reciprocal ST depression in Leads III and aVF.&nbsp; ST segments have an abnormally flat shape in Leads aVL, II, III, aVF, V5 and V6.<br /> <br /> <span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">She was admitted to the hospital and sent to the cath lab.&nbsp; Her arteries were found to be clear, and <a href="https://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/conditions/cardiomyopathy/takotsubo-cardiomyopathy">Takotsubo cardiomyopathy</a> was diagnosed.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847940/">See also</a>.</span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Our thanks to Lew Steinberg and Palm Beach Gardens Fire Rescue for donating this interesting ECG.</span></p></div></div></div> Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:13:28 +0000 Dawn 750 at https://www.ecgguru.com