Comparing the variants of takotsubo syndrome: an observational study of the ECG and structural changes from a New Zealand tertiary hospital.

Objectives: In takotsubo syndrome, QTc prolongation is a measure of risk of potentially fatal arrhythmia. It is not known how this risk, or derangement of other markers, differs across the echo variants of takotsubo syndrome. Therefore, we sought to explore whether apical takotsubo syndrome differs from the variants of the syndrome in more ways than just regional wall motion pattern.

The fifth takotsubo variant.

We document the fifth pattern of takotsubo cardiomyopathy, in which the mid-LV is hyperdynamic but the apex and base are akinetic or hypokinetic. This is a reverse mid-ventricular takotsubo. The patient is a 79-year-old woman admitted with chest pain and initially a normal EKG.

A case of recurrent earthquake stress cardiomyopathy with a differing wall motion abnormality.

We present the case of a Caucasian woman who survived two major earthquakes, presenting on each occasion with stress cardiomyopathy, but with a different pattern of regional wall motion abnormality on the second occasion. The first Christchurch earthquake struck on September 4, 2010. At 7.