JACC: Case Reports (Mar 2020)

An Exceptional Cause of Acute Right Heart Failure

  • Jose Carreras-Mora, MD,
  • Albert Duran-Cambra, MD,
  • David Vilades-Medel, MD,
  • Marcelo Jimenez-Kockar, MD,
  • Eduard Sole-Gonzalez, MD,
  • Isaac Llao-Ferrando, MD, PhD,
  • Jordi Sans-Rosello, MD,
  • Maria Vidal-Burdeus, MD,
  • Montserrat Vila-Perales, MD,
  • Alessandro Sionis, MD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 365 – 369

Abstract

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We describe a patient with of acute right ventricular dysfunction secondary to right ventricular isolated Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). The importance of appropriate differential diagnosis for acute right ventricular dysfunction differential diagnosis of acute right ventricular dysfunction and the differences in diagnosis and management of right ventricular TTS and typical left ventricular TTS are highlighted. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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