Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy and sudden death
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Tako-Tsubo, sudden cardiac death, defibrilator.Abstract
A 38-year-old patient came into the emergency room with chest pain. He presented helicoidal ventricular tachycardia followed by ventricular fibrillation with adequate response to the established treatment. Cardiac catheterization demonstrated severe hypokinesia of the middle segments of the left ventricle, without coronary lesions. The QTc interval was very prolonged, that is why an automatic defibrillator was implanted. The process healed, but pericarditis presented as a late complication.
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