Heart and lung, a dangerous liaison-Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy and respiratory diseases: A systematic review

Table 1 Respiratory symptoms or diseases and Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: Synopsis of published case reports

Symptom/disease	Gender, age (yr)	Concurring condition	TTC outcome	Country	Ref.
COPD
Dyspnea	Female, 57	COPD	Favorable	United States	Pezzo et al[26]
		Unexpected death of her son
Dyspnea	Female, 51	COPD, Hypothyroidism	Favorable	Poland	Bilan et al[27]
		Financial problems
Status asthmaticus	Female, 66	COPD with multiple hospitalizations, heavy smoker	Favorable	United States	Rennyson et al[28]
Exacerbation	Female, 63	Multiple admissions	Favorable	United States	Makam et al[24]
Exacerbation	Male, 52	Financial unavailability to buy his drugs	Favorable	Spain	Pham et al[29]
Exacerbation	Female, 62	(1) COPD exacerbation	Favorable	Germany	Sager et al[30]
		(2) Family dispute
		(3) Acute thrombosis of aortobifemoral prosthesis
Exacerbation	Female, 68	COPD	Favorable	Brazil	Salemi et al[21]
		β2 agonist abuse
Exacerbation	Female, 63	Severe longstanding COPD, heavy smoker	Favorable	New Zealand	White et al[22]
	Male, 59	Ex-smoker, COPD Salbutamol abuse
Exacerbation	Female, 76	COPD	Favorable	United States	Mendoza et al[23]
		β2 agonist abuse
Exacerbation	Female, 63	multiple exacerbations with noninvasive ventilation	Favorable	United States	Laktikova et al[25]
Asthma
Bronchial asthma	Female, 74	Jet lag, 3 cups of coffee, 1-h sauna	Favorable	Taiwan	Chang et al[37]
Allergic rhinitis	Female, 84	Nasal decongestant abuse	Favorable	Brazil	Wang et al[34]
Status asthmaticus	Female, 46	Ketamine + epinephrine administration	Favorable	United States	Osuorji et al[33]
Bronchial asthma	Male, 72	Acute asthmatic attack	Favorable	Italy	Pontillo et al[31]
Suspected intractable bronchial asthma	Female, 62	Relapsing polichondritis	Favorable	Japan	Sato et al[35]
Allergic asthma	Male, 70	Allergy	Favorable	Italy	Santoro et al[36]
		Cephalosporin use
Asthma	Male, 53	Cocaine	Favorable	United States	Sarkar et al[38]
Status asthmaticus	Male, 50	b2 agonist abuse	Favorable	United States	Salahuddin et al[32]
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism	Female, 79	Long distance travel	Favorable	United States	Challa et al[42]
		Popliteal vein thrombosis
Pulmonary embolism	Female, 65	Pyelonephritis	Favorable	Italy	Fedele et al[41]
		Emotional stress
Malignancies. invasive procedures/surgery
Cardiopulmonary bypass	Female	Mitral valve plasty	Favorable	Japan	Itoh et al[48]
Rigid bronchoscopy for debridment	Male, 77	Esophageal carcinoma + central airways invasion	Favorable	United States	Guerrero et al[50]
Intubation	Female, age not given	Parathyroid surgery (canceled)	Favorable	United States	Mueller et al[49]
Bronchoalveolar lavage	Male, 68	Fever and cough productive of sputum, history of tuberculosis	Favorable	South Korea	Ok et al[51]
Lung transplantation	Female, 55	End-stage lung fibrosis	Favorable	France	Michel-Cherqui et al[47]
Squamous carcinoma	Male, 51	Pulmonary resection	Favorable	South Korea	Lee et al[44]
Non-small cell lung cancer	Male, 72	Pulmonary resection	Favorable	Japan	Toyooka et al[45]
Lung adenocarcinoma	Male, 59	Heavy smoker, first diagnosis of malignancy with multiple metastases	Favorable	Turkey	Kepez et al[46]
Miscellaneous
Cough	Female, 82	Bad coughing “pill went down the wrong way”	Favorable	United States	Butman et al[59]
Dyspnea	Female, 51	Diving (examination)	Favorable	France	Chenaitia et al[58]
S. pneumoniae pneumonia	Female, 65	Sepsis	Favorable	Australia	Geng et al[55]
Pulmonary edema	Female, 73	Frightening episode	Favorable	Northern Ireland	Daly et al[56]
Pulmonary edema	Female, 59	Motor-vehicle collision	Favorable	United States	Ritchie et al[57]
Pneumothorax	Female, 64	COPD	Favorable	United States	Kumar et al[52]
Pulmonary hypertension	Female, 69	Initiation of intravenous trepostinil	Favorable	United States	Cork et al[54]
Pulmonary hypertension	Female, 81	Right ventricular involvement	Favorable	Italy	Citro et al[53]
Smoking and “Venus”	Male, 81	Adulterous sexual intercourse	Favorable	Italy	Brunetti et al[60]

COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. TTC: Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy.