Transient apical ballooning and apical sparing variant stress cardiomyopathy in the same patient.

A 60-year-old woman presented with chest pressure and emesis. Her electrocardiogram was abnormal but non-diagnostic for an acute myocardial infarction. Echocardiography revealed mid- and basal-left ventricular akinesis, with sparing of the apical segments, consistent with apical sparing variant of stress cardiomyopathy (see Supplementary data online, Multimedia files 1 and 2 and Figure 1 A ). Coronary angiography revealed no significant disease. Figure 1 ( A ) End-systolic short-axis images of the …