Liver contusion in man reveals a Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy without chest pain: reality or illusion?

Abstract

Tako-tsubo syndrome is very rare in male patients, often overlooked by practitioners in its atypical form painless, and who did not always a good prognostic, often revealed in a context of acute stress at any time in the hospital or outside, its pathophysiology remains to discuss, the diagnosis is greatly facilitated by imaging including echocardiography with apical ballooning. We relate this clinical case of a patient admitted to the ICU for a liver contusion with a diagnosis incidentally this syndrome.