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A 28-year-old gravida 7 para 5 woman presented from an outlying facility with non-radiating, crushing, severe left-sided chest pain. She was initially treated for a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction with ECG evidence of T wave inversions in leads II, III, aVF, V5, V6 and an abnormal troponin level at 0.56 ng/mL. Accordingly, left heart catheterisation was performed emergently and revealed normal coronary arteries without any obstruction (figure 1). Left ventriculography showed mid-ventricular hypokinesis with hyperdynamic apical and basal wall contraction, consistent with a mid-ventricular takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) (video 1). The ejection fraction was estimated at 30%–35%.
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