Lampropoulos KM, Kotsas D, Iliopoulos TA. Apical ballooning syndrome: a case report.
BMC Res Notes 2012;
5:698. [PMID:
23270409 PMCID:
PMC3537650 DOI:
10.1186/1756-0500-5-698]
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Abstract
Background
Apical ballooning syndrome mimics acute coronary syndromes and it is characterized by reversible left ventricular apical ballooning in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery stenosis.
Case presentation
This is a case of a 40-year-old Caucasian male without any health related problems that was submitted to an urgent coronary angiography because of acute chest pain and marked precordial T-wave inversions suggestive of acute myocardial ischemia. Coronary angiography showed no significant stenosis of the coronary arteries. Left ventriculography showed systolic apical ballooning with mild basal hypercontraction.
Conclusion
Physicians should be aware of the presentation of apical ballooning syndrome, and the chest pain after following acute stress should not be readily attributed to anxiety.
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