Successful heart transplantation using a donor heart afflicted by takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Successful heart transplantation using a donor heart afflicted by takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2016 Jan;29(1):73-4 Authors: Ravi Y, Campagna R, Rosas PC, Essa E, Hasan AK, Higgins RS, Emani S, Sai-Sudhakar CB Abstract Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as apical ballooning syndrome, stress cardiomyopathy, or broken heart syndrome, is a disease characterized by transient ventricular dysfunction in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. Herein, we present a case in which a heart with mild takotsubo cardiomyopathy was utilized as the donor organ for an orthotopic heart transplant. PMID: 26722178 [PubMed]
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