Cerebral infarction as initial presentation in stress cardiomyopathy: Case report and literature review

Medicine
Qiongying WangFeng Bai

Abstract

The typical symptoms of stress cardiomyopathy include sudden-onset chest pain and breathlessness or collapse as well as classical symptoms of cardiovascular disease; however, rare reports have described nervous system symptoms as the initial manifestation. Here, we report the case of a young man who presented with a large cerebral infarction as the main clinical symptom of stress cardiomyopathy to increase recognition of the disease. A 28-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for sudden-onset weakness of the right limbs and unconsciousness for 1 day. Ten days prior, he began consuming copious amounts of alcohol (500 mL/day) secondary to reactive depression. Imaging revealed a left internal carotid artery occlusion as assessed by carotid artery ultrasonography. Brain magnetic resonance imaging/magnetic resonance angiography showed new large left cerebral infarction complicated by a reperfusion injury. Moreover, cardiac ultrasonography showed decreased motion of the left ventricular apex, a 3.7 cm mural thrombus in the ventricular apex. The results of coronary and renal artery angiography did not reveal any significant epicardial coronary disease with thrombolysis in the myocardial infarction grade 3 in any of the coronary ar...Continue Reading

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