We report a case involving a young male patient without a significant medical history who exhibited symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, chest and back pain, and syncope with vomiting. He was found to have adrenal insufficiency and cardiac tamponade requiring pericardiocentesis. Further inpatient workup revealed the patient had positive IgM and IgG antibody titers for the coxsackie B virus, which we believe caused his presentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTakotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a reversible syndrome that resembles a myocardial infarction but without typical coronary stenosis and with an apical "ballooning" image present on an echocardiogram. Multiple triggers have been linked to TCM but rarely, acute severe hypoglycemia. This is a case of a 39-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency department after being found unresponsive at home.
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