Abstract
Acute stress-induced (Tako-tsubo) cardiomyopathy is an increasingly recognized but insufficiently characterized syndrome. Here, we investigate the pathophysiology of right ventricular (RV) involvement in Tako-tsubo and its recovery time course. We prospectively recruited 31 patients with Tako-tsubo with predominantly ST-elevation electrocardiogram and 18 controls of similar gender, age, and co-morbidity distribution. Patients underwent echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging on a 3T Philips scanner in the acute phase (day 0 to 3 after presentation) and at 4-months follow-up. Visually, echocardiography was able to identify only 52% of patients who showed RV wall motion abnormalities on CMR. Only CMR-derived RV ejection fraction (p = 0.01) and echocardiography-estimated pulmonary artery pressure (p = 0.01) identify RV functional involvement in the acute phase. Although RV ejection fraction normalizes in most patients by 4 months, acutely there is RV myocardial edema in both functioning and malfunctioning segments, as measured by prolonged native T1 mapping (p = 0.02 for both vs controls), and this persists at 4 months in the acutely malfunctioning segments (p = 0.002 vs controls). The extracellular volume fr...Continue Reading
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