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Reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy with use of male enhancers
Carlos E Rodriguez-Castro1, Fatima Saifuddin1, Mateo Porres-Aguilar1
1Department of Internal Medicine (Rodriguez-Castro, Porres-Aguilar, Said), Division of Cardiovascular Diseases (Gough, Siddiqui, Mukherjee, Abbas), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas; and Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, Karachi, Pakistan (Saifuddin).
Abstract:
Reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a rare heart failure condition characterized by systolic dysfunction of the basal segments of the left ventricle in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. We present a case of a 54-year-old man with an overdose of Extenze (a male enhancer pill containing yohimbine) who was hospitalized with heart failure due to reverse takotsubo cardiomyopathy.