Left Ventricular Thrombus Associated with Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: A Cardioembolic Cause of Cerebral Infarction
Seoung-Nam SHIN; Kyeong-Ho YUN; Jum-Suk KO; Sang-Jae RHEE; Nam-Jin YOO; Nam-Ho KIM; Seok-Kyu OH; Jin-Won JEONG.
Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound
; : 152-155, 2011.
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also called stress-induced cardiomyopathy, usually occurs in patients with severe emotional or physiologic stress. The prognosis is favorable, and the wall motion abnormlities normalize within weeks. However, stress-induced cardiomyopathy is rarely assosicated with left ventricular thrombus and thromboembolic complications. Here, we report a case of stress-induced cardiomyopathy with left ventricular thrombus that embolized to cause cerebral infarction.
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