Takotsubo Syndrome (Broken-Heart Syndrome or Stress Cardiomyopathy) in an Epileptic Pregnant Woman: A Case Report.

Stress cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo syndrome) is a rare and transient cardiac dysfunction that has been reported in pregnant women with multiple triggering conditions. In general, those cases recovered from the acute cardiac insult within a few weeks. We report a 33-year-old 22 weeks pregnant woman, who presented with an episode of status epilepticus and subsequently developed acute heart failure.

Three-dimensional echocardiography vs. computed tomography for transcatheter aortic valve replacement sizing.

Aims: The accuracy of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) sizing using three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (3D-TEE) compared with the gold-standard multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) remains unclear. We compare aortic annulus measurements assessed using these two imaging modalities.

Methods And Results: We performed a single-centre prospective cohort study, including 53 consecutive patients undergoing TAVR, who had both MSCT and 3D-TEE for aortic annulus sizing.