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A 77-year-old lady was brought to our primary percutaneous coronary intervention service with chest pain and ST elevation in anterior chest leads. She had an emotional stress the day prior to her presentation. She was haemodynamically stable with a blood pressure of 110/64 mm Hg and had grade 5 ejection systolic murmur. Her coronary angiogram showed unobstructed coronary arteries. Her left ventriculogram showed akinetic apical and mid-segment with hyperkinetic basal segment, typical of Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy (figure 1, figure 2 …
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