Patient with Gender Dysphoria Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis Following Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Ventricular Arrhythmia: A Case Report and Systematic Literature Review

A 34-year-old transgender woman presented with ventricular tachycardia and was diagnosed with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. Further evaluation revealed an underlying diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) with brainstem lesions that may have triggered takotsubo cardiomyopathy. In this report, we also systematically reviewed published cases of takotsubo cardiomyopathy and MS and found that basal type takotsubo cardiomyopathy was the most common, and most patients presented with brainstem involvement of MS. An awareness of these associations by physicians, along with multidisciplinary collaboration, may facilitate the early diagnosis and improve the prognosis of these patients.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Internal medicine

• Publication date

  2024-04-09

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.2169/internalmedicine.3442-23PMID 38599863PMCID 11671179
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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