Clinicians should consider Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in patients with C. difficile infection who develop atypical chest pain.
May prompt consideration of Takotsubo in C. difficile with chest pain; hypothesis-generating and requires confirmation.
To our research, this is the first report of TCM caused by C. difficile infection. Clinicians involved in the care of patients with C. difficile infection must be aware of this complication and should consider TCM in those who develop atypical chest pain.
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