We present a 60-year-old woman with chest pain preceded by emotional stress. Transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated localized left ventricular hypokinesis around the apical area. Multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) revealed no significant stenosis in the coronary arteries, which comfirmed Takotsubo-like cardiomyopathy. We show here the usefulness of MDCT for the noninvasive differentiation of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy from acute coronary syndrome.
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Hara, T., Hayashi, T., Izawa, I., & Kajiya, T. (2007). Noninvasive detection of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy using multi-detector row computed tomography. International Heart Journal, 48(6), 773–778. https://doi.org/10.1536/ihj.48.773
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