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Biventricular takotsubo cardiomyopathy in an elderly woman with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes: the biphasic echocardiographic and clinical pattern

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We describe a case of an elderly woman who was diagnosed with a biventricular takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) with combination of emotional stress and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes. We observed significant correlation between biphasic improvement of right (after 4 days) and left ventricle function (after 4 weeks) with normalization glycemic status. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case in the literature of biventricular TTC with such metabolic disturbances.

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  1. 1st Department of Cardiology, Central University Hospital, Medical University of Warsaw, 1a Banacha St., 02-097, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kochanowski, Radoslaw Piatkowski, Monika Budnik & Grzegorz Opolski

  2. 2nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Mariusz Jasik

  3. Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Marek Roik

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Kochanowski, J., Piatkowski, R., Budnik, M. et al. Biventricular takotsubo cardiomyopathy in an elderly woman with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes: the biphasic echocardiographic and clinical pattern. Acta Diabetol 53, 1061–1063 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-016-0916-3

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