Key result
COVID-19 infection can present with takotsubo cardiomyopathy as a sign of cardiac involvement.
Why the study?
COVID-19 frequently involves cardiac manifestations such as new-onset cardiomyopathy, motivating the report of a patient presenting with takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
Highlights takotsubo cardiomyopathy as a potential manifestation of cardiac involvement in patients with COVID-19.
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy may occur in COVID-19; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a high incidence of cardiac involvement, commonly described as a new-onset cardiomyopathy. In this report, we describe a patient with a new manifestation of cardiac involvement in the setting of a COVID-19 diagnosis: that of takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
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Dave et al. (2020) studied this question. COVID-19 infection can present with takotsubo cardiomyopathy as a manifestation of cardiac involvement.
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