Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri

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YOUNG WOMAN WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION AND MITRAL LAMBL EXCRESCENCE: WHAT TO DO WHEN ISCHEMIC STROKE IS RECURRENT?
Anno:
2024
Lambl excrescence describing rare cardiac growths that develop at the valvular coaptation sites of the heart which are seen as a thin, hypermobile and filiform strand on an echocardiogram. These filiform strands can be noted in association with embolic stroke. Also heart failure (HF) and stroke frequently coexist because…
TAKOTSUBO SYNDROME PRECEDING THE INDEX EVENT: A DANGEROUS CLINICAL SETTING
Anno:
2024
We describe the case of a 68-year-old patient who presented to the Emergency Department following an unwitnessed syncopal episode with slow recovery of consciousness. On admission, the patient had dyspnoea together with physical signs of pulmonary congestion. Cardiac ultrasound showed severe left ventricular dysfunction with an ejection fraction of…