Services on Demand
Journal
Article
Indicators
Cited by SciELO
Access statistics
Related links
Similars in SciELO
Share
Archivos de cardiología de México
On-line version ISSN 1665-1731Print version ISSN 1405-9940
Abstract
ZAZUETA-ARMENTA, Verónica; GONZALEZ-OROZCO, José A.; ORNELAS-AGUIRRE, José M. and FELIX-CORDOVA, Josué A.. Clinical characteristics of takotsubo syndrome: a series of cases. Arch. Cardiol. Méx. [online]. 2023, vol.93, n.2, pp.203-211. Epub May 16, 2023. ISSN 1665-1731. https://doi.org/10.24875/acm.21000407.
Introduction:
takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a recently recognized entity that resembles an acute coronary syndrome. Its epidemiology has been studied in various populations around the world. The most frequent trigger is an emotional stressful event.
Objective:
To describe the clinical characteristics of a series of cases with TTS.
Material and methods:
A descriptive and retrospective study was carried out. The variables of age, gender, clinical characteristics, cardiovascular risk factors, triggering factors, biomarkers, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and angiographic findings in the clinical records of a group of cases of patients with TTS were evaluated.
Results:
19 cases of TTS were included. There were 16 women and 3 men, the average age was 62 ± 14 years; the main cardiovascular risk factor was sedentary lifestyle in 13 cases. The emotional trigger was present in most cases. The most frequent symptom was chest pain, eight cases presented data of shoCKP and heart failure. The most common variant by echocardiography was apical ballooning in 79%, as well as by ventriculography. The most common complication was cardiogenic shoCKP.
Conclusions:
The clinical characteristics of our population are like those previously described in the literature. TTS is a transient and reversible cardiomyopathy with a good prognosis.
Keywords : Takotsubo syndrome; Acute coronary syndrome; Heart failure.