Case report: takotsubo syndrome in infectious endocarditis
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Case report: takotsubo syndrome in infectious endocarditis Manuel Rattka1 · Jule Gundlach1 · Wolfgang Rottbauer1 · Mirjam Keßler1 Received: 19 December 2019 / Accepted: 9 March 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Sirs: We report a 60-year-old woman with a history of aortic valve replacement (23 mm bio-prosthesis), who was admitted to our emergency unit and suffered from progressive shortness of breath and chest discomfort for about 7 days. The physical examination and the resting electrocardiogram (ECG), which showed a known left bundle branch block (LBBB, Online Resource 1A), were inconclusive. Laboratory tests revealed an increased high-sensitive cardiac troponin T of 76 ng/l (normal
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