ArticleCureus2017
Recurrent Stress Cardiomyopathy During COPD Exacerbation: Are Beta-adrenergic Agonists Only to Blame?
Article in Cureus, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cardiac Assessment and Takotsubo-stunning among COPD-exacerbations in-Hospital (CATCH study): when the lungs break your heart-protocol for a prospective observational cohort study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Article
- Assessing the Role of High-Dose β-Agonists Use in Triggering Takotsubo Syndrome During Asthma Exacerbation.The Permanente journal · 2022Review
- Utility of recognizing early electrocardiogram changes in bronchogenic Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: A case report.World journal of cardiology · 2019Article
- Frequently Recurrent Takotsubo Syndrome in COPD.Case reports in cardiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a variant of stress-induced cardiomyopathy, characterized by transient left ventricular dysfunction that may be associated with emotional or physical triggers. We present the case of a 51-year-old Caucasian female with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who presented with syncope and was found to have her second lifetime episode of stress-induced cardiomyopathy. Eight months prior, she had been admitted with a COPD exacerbation and was found to have left ventricular (LV) dysfunction with ejection fraction (EF) of 22% attributed to TCM with subsequent normalization of her left ventricular function. Recurrence of stress-induced cardiomyopathy associated with COPD is a rare phenomenon and its presentation raises the possibility of a common underlying mechanism.
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