Seizures and recurrence of Takotsubo syndrome: one clinical presentation and trigger, but two different anatomical variants in the same patient. A case to meditate on

We present the case of a 67-year-old woman affected by hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. She had a history of alcoholism, anxiety disorder with panic attacks, and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Despite a previous transient ischemic attack and her thromboembolic risk (CHA2DS2-VASc score: 5), she had not been taking anticoagulants at home without a reasonable motivation. Moreover, around eighteen years prior, she had breast cancer and underwent surgical intervention, radiotherapy and several years of hormone-therapy.

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