Volume 24, Issue 104, July - August, 2020

Tako Tsubo Cardiomyopathy: Case report after attempted suicidal partial hanging

Iftekharahmed Ansari^1♦, Charan Singh Bagga¹, Amrutha Garikapathi¹, Srinivas Naik¹, Sunil Kumar²

¹Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
²Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

^♦Corresponding author
Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru medical college, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences (Deemed to be University), Wardha, Maharashtra, India; Email: ansarii.iftekhar@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Tako Tsubo cardiomyopathy presents with typical clinical features of acute coronary syndrome such as pain in chest, excessive sweating, difficulty in breathing, arrhythmias or generalized fatigue. Most common risk factors for this are extreme physical and emotional syndrome. This case report highlights about a 47 years old male who came to the emergency department with history of attempted suicidal partial hanging and developed symptoms of acute coronary syndrome which was diagnosed as Tako Tsubo cardiomyopathy on 2D echocardiography.

Keywords: Tako Tsubo cardiomyopathy, suicide, hanging, acute coronary syndrome

Medical Science, 2020, 24(104), 2435-2438

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