European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 21, 2007
European Heart Journal 2008 29(6):830; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm449
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Inverted Takotsubo cardiomyopathy due to pheochromocytoma
1 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland
2 Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
3 Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
4 Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
* Corresponding author. Tel: +41 61 265 5473; Fax: +41 61 265 4598. Email: mzellweger@uhbs.ch
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A 52-year-old woman with history of weight loss and hypertension was referred to our cardiology department with acute typical chest pain, shortness of breath, hypertensive crisis (180/120 mmHg) and headache.