Can aldosterone break your heart? Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a patient with newly diagnosed primary aldosteronism.

We report a case of a 47-year-old Caucasian woman with medical history of hypertension and hypokalemia, who presented to Emergency Room with symptoms resembling acute coronary syndrome ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Coronary angiogram revealed clear coronary arteries and left ventriculogram confirmed the diagnosis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy. She was treated conservatively with good clinical outcome. Subsequent testing revealed underlying primary aldosteronism. © BMJ Publishing Group Ltd (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.