Transient global amnesia and broken heart syndrome: two faces of one pathology

We present a case of a 57-year-old female patient with transient global amnesia, who later developed broken heart syndrome also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The present case underlines that co-occurrence of both pathologies might still be an under-recognized clinical problem.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical autonomic research 2015-06, Vol.25 (3), p.189-191
Hauptverfasser:	Quick, Silvio, Speiser, Uwe, Richter, Nicole, Youssef, Akram, Waessnig, Nadine, Strasser, Ruth H., Ibrahim, Karim
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acute Coronary Syndrome - diagnosis Acute Coronary Syndrome - physiopathology Amnesia Amnesia, Transient Global - complications Amnesia, Transient Global - pathology Cardiology Cardiomyopathy Case Report Diabetes Echocardiography Electrocardiography Endocrinology Female Gastroenterology Heart Humans Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Neurologic Examination Neurology Neuropsychological Tests Ophthalmology Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy - complications Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy - pathology Treatment Outcome Xenografts
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Zusammenfassung:	We present a case of a 57-year-old female patient with transient global amnesia, who later developed broken heart syndrome also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The present case underlines that co-occurrence of both pathologies might still be an under-recognized clinical problem.
ISSN:	0959-9851 1619-1560
DOI:	10.1007/s10286-015-0284-z