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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abcic</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>ABC Imagem Cardiovascular</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ABC Imagem Cardiovasc.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2318-8219</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2675-312X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Departamento de Imagem Cardiovascular da Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiolodia (DIC/SBC)</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abcimg.20260023i</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Case Report</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Single Coronary Artery and Stress Cardiomyopathy: An Association Demonstrated by Multimodality Imaging</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0003-4959-0489</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Ferreira</surname>
            <given-names>Marcus Vinicius Silva</given-names>
          </name>
          <role>Conception and design of the research</role>
          <role>Acquisition of data</role>
          <role>Writing of the manuscript</role>
          <role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0009-0007-6664-9186</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Tormin</surname>
            <given-names>Julia Pereira Afonso dos Santos</given-names>
          </name>
          <role>Conception and design of the research</role>
          <role>Acquisition of data</role>
          <role>Writing of the manuscript</role>
          <role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-3053-3583</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Dantas</surname>
            <given-names>Roberto Nery</given-names>
            <suffix>Jr</suffix>
          </name>
          <role>Conception and design of the research</role>
          <role>Analysis and interpretation of the data</role>
          <role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-5547-6821</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Torres</surname>
            <given-names>Roberto Vitor Almeida</given-names>
          </name>
          <role>Analysis and interpretation of the data</role>
          <role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0009-0001-7827-9115</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Cordeiro</surname>
            <given-names>Renan Andreos</given-names>
          </name>
          <role>Acquisition of data</role>
          <role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-8627-3661</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Ara&#250;jo</surname>
            <given-names>Jos&#233; de Arimateia Batista</given-names>
            <suffix>Filho</suffix>
          </name>
          <role>Conception and design of the research</role>
          <role>Analysis and interpretation of the data</role>
          <role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Cardoso</surname>
            <given-names>Luiz Francisco</given-names>
          </name>
          <role>Acquisition of data</role>
          <role>Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content</role>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
            <sup>1</sup>
          </xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff1">
        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Hospital Sirio-Libanes</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Hospital Sirio-Libanes, S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brazil</institution>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c01"><label>Mailing Address:</label> Marcus Vinicius Silva Ferreira Hospital S&#237;rio-Lib&#226;nes. Rua Dona Adma Jafet, 115. Postal code: 01308-050. S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brazil E-mail: <email>marcusvsferreira@gmail.com</email> </corresp>
        <fn fn-type="coi-statement">
          <label>Potential Conflict of Interest:</label>
          <p> No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <label>Editor responsible for the review:</label>
          <p> Marcelo Tavares</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>17</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <season>Apr-Jun</season>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>39</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <elocation-id>e20260023</elocation-id>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2026</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>6</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2026</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>6</day>
          <month>04</month>
          <year>2026</year>
        </date>
      </history>
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          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License</license-p>
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        <title>Keywords:</title>
        <kwd>Coronary Vessels</kwd>
        <kwd>Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy</kwd>
        <kwd>Coronary Angiography</kwd>
        <kwd>Echocardiography</kwd>
        <kwd>Magnetic Resonance Imaging</kwd>
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      <funding-group>
        <funding-statement><bold>Sources of Funding:</bold> There were no external funding sources for this study.</funding-statement>
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    <sec sec-type="cases">
      <title>Case Report</title>
      <p>A 58-years-old female patient was admitted with retrosternal chest pain described as a continuous, oppressive tightness that had started two days earlier, after a tooth extraction procedure performed under ineffective local anesthesia. The patient&#8217;s past medical history included diabetes, dyslipidemia, and ovarian cancer, and she was receiving aspirin, rosuvastatin, metformin, dapagliflozin, and semaglutide. Physical examination was unremarkable. The chest pain protocol was initiated, and the initial electrocardiogram showed sinus rhythm with left anterior fascicular block, early repolarization in the inferior leads, and T-wave inversion in aVL, V1, and V2 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1A</xref>). The patient received 5 mg of sublingual isosorbide dinitrate, and blood samples were collected for laboratory testing. High-sensitivity troponin T (hs-cTnT) was 171 ng/L, confirming myocardial injury. An initial diagnosis of non&#8211;ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) was made, and the patient underwent coronary angiography (CA) for anatomic assessment (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01">Figure 1</xref> / Video S1).</p>
      <p>
        <fig id="f01">
          <label>Figure 1</label>
          <caption>
            <title>&#8211; Initial Electrocardiogram and Percutaneous Angiography Findings. A) Initial electrocardiogram demonstrating T-wave inversion in aVL, V1 and V2. B) CA revealed a SCA emerging from the right coronary sinus with anomalous course anterior to the right ventricle (RV) conus and providing the left branches. No coronary stenosis was identified. C) Aortography revealed no abnormalities. D-E) Left ventriculography in diastole (D) and systole (E) demonstrating mid-ventricle akinesia and balooning.</title>
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          <graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-0023i-gf01.tif"/></fig>
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      <media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="https://minio.scielo.br/documentstore/2675-312X/jKKkF4S3SSZjH6y84vvhXjd/b7e501683cf3623fd4d7bef4a3038787f072a5d7.mp4">
        <label>Video S1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>&#8211; Percutaneous CA and Left Ventriculography. View: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link> </title>
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      <p>Angiography revealed a single right coronary artery (RCA), which was further evaluated by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f02">Figure 2</xref>). The left coronary branches originated from a large right marginal branch, with an anomalous course anterior to the right ventricular conus, followed by an ascending course of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery in the interventricular sulcus and subsequent branching into the circumflex (CX) and obtuse marginal (OM) arteries. However, no evidence of plaque or stenosis was identified. Left ventriculography (Video S1) revealed regional wall motion abnormalities, with midventricular akinesia and balooning, which were further confirmed by echocardiography (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03">Figure 3</xref>/Video S2). These findings are typically described as the midventricular phenotype of stress cardiomyopathy (SCM).</p>
      <p>
        <fig id="f02">
          <label>Figure 2</label>
          <caption>
            <title>&#8211; CCTA Findings. 3D rendered cardiac (A-B) and coronary reconstruction (C-E) better depicted coronary anatomy. 1) Single RCA emerging from the right sinus with normal course through the atrioventricular sulcus. 2) Elongated right marginal artery coursing anterior to the right ventricle conus to reach the anterior interventricular sulcus. 3) Anterior interventricular branch with ascending course with septal and diagonal branches (LAD artery territory). 4) Left atrioventricular branch coursing laterally and branching into left OM branches (left CX artery territory).</title>
          </caption>
          <graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-0023i-gf02.tif"/></fig>
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      <p>
        <fig id="f03">
          <label>Figure 3</label>
          <caption>
            <title>&#8211; Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) Findings. A-B) TTE Four-chamber view in diastole (A) and systole (B) demonstrating mid inferoseptal segment akinesia and bulging (white arrowhead). C-D) Parasternal long-axis view in diastole (C) and systole (D) demonstrating mid anteroseptal segment akinesia and bulging (yellow arrowhead). E-F) Two-chamber view in diastole (E) and systole (F) demonstrating mid inferior akinesia (red arrowhead) and mid anterior hypokinesia (blue arrowhead). TTE confirmed previous left ventriculography findings, which were suggestive of SCM.</title>
          </caption>
          <graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-0023i-gf03.tif"/></fig>
      </p>
      <media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="https://minio.scielo.br/documentstore/2675-312X/jKKkF4S3SSZjH6y84vvhXjd/bf3c4325440a912f799fbad370dbf3095dbefc7c.mp4">
        <label>Video S2</label>
        <caption>
          <title>&#8211; Transthoracic Echocardiography. View: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link> </title>
        </caption>
      </media>
      <p>The patient received supportive care, with improvement in pain and a decrease in hs-cTnT to 39 ng/L. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), performed four days later, before hospital discharge, revealed a preserved ejection fraction with mild hypokinesia of the midventricular anterior and septal walls (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f04">Figure 4</xref>/Video S3). The T2-weighted short tau inversion recovery (STIR) sequence demonstrated edema in the mid-anterior and septal walls, with mild mid-wall late gadolinium enhancement, interpreted as a subacute finding of SCM. The patient was discharged after seven days, with complete pain resolution and no complications during hospitalization.</p>
      <p>
        <fig id="f04">
          <label>Figure 4</label>
          <caption>
            <title>&#8211; Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Findings (CMR). Steady-state free precession (SSFP) cine images were acquired in two-chamber view in diastole (A) and systole (B) and revealed mid anterior segment hypokinesia (green arrows). Phase-sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in the same view (C), revealed patchy mid-wall enhancement in mid anterior and mid inferior segments (green arrows). Systolic cine (D), Short-tau inversion recovery (STIR) and PSIR imagens in mid-ventricle short axis view (E and F respectively) demonstrate mid anterior and anteroseptal hypokinesia, transmural oedema (E) and patchy mid-wall LGE (F) in mid anterior, anteroseptal, inferoseptal and inferior segments (red arrows). Four-chamber view systolic cine (G), STIR (H) and PSIR (I) images demonstrated hypokinesia, oedema and patchy mid-wall LGE in mid inferoseptal segment (yellow arrows).</title>
          </caption>
          <graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-0023i-gf04.tif"/></fig>
      </p>
      <media mime-subtype="mp4" mimetype="video" xlink:href="https://minio.scielo.br/documentstore/2675-312X/jKKkF4S3SSZjH6y84vvhXjd/aa19fa5890b10fffa4520aca6124a480f5485e11.mp4">
        <label>Video S3</label>
        <caption>
          <title>&#8211; Cine Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Sequences. View: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link> </title>
        </caption>
      </media>
    </sec>
    <sec sec-type="discussion">
      <title>Discussion</title>
      <p>Isolated single coronary artery (SCA) is a rare congenital anomaly in which a single artery arises from a single coronary ostium and supplies the entire myocardium, branching in different patterns to perfuse the coronary territories.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> Although most patients remain asymptomatic, some variants, particularly those with interarterial and intramural courses, may promote exercise-induced ischemia because of extrinsic compression caused by increased pulsation of the aorta and pulmonary artery. These patients are at increased risk of sudden cardiac death during exercise, particularly younger patients under 30 years of age, with a left coronary artery following an interarterial and intramural course.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> In addition, an acute-angle takeoff and a tortuous course may result in abnormal blood flow and predispose to atherosclerotic disease because of endothelial injury.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Recent reports have described SCM in patients with SCA, even in the absence of an interarterial course.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>-<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> SCM is an acute and transient myocardial injury characterized by myocardial stunning, that is, transient regional left ventricular systolic dysfunction, triggered by an emotionally or physically stressful event. The classic presentation of SCM, known as Takotsubo syndrome consists of apical and midventricular akinesia, hypokinesia, or dyskinesia associated with basal hyperkinesia, resulting in apical ballooning. However, other phenotypes have also been described, including the midventricular pattern observed in the present case.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup> The mechanism of myocardial injury remains unclear. It has been hypothesized that dysregulation of the central autonomic nervous system and increased levels of stress-related neuropeptides may promote microvascular constriction, impaired perfusion, and ischemic stunning.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Gr&#228;ni et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> reported a case of a single RCA with a deep subpulmonary intraseptal course of the LAD/CX, presenting with the classic apical ballooning phenotype of SCM (Takotsubo syndrome). Despite the absence of an interarterial course, the transeptal path was hypothesized to contribute to vasospasm, endothelial dysfunction, and SCM. However, extrinsic compression as a potential mechanism was not observed in other reports.</p>
      <p>Neiva et al<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup> described a similar case of a single RCA, with hypoplastic LAD and CX arteries arising from a posterolateral branch that coursed anterior to the right ventricular conus, presenting with classic SCM and complete remission after seven days. Salazar Mar&#237;n et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> reported a case of a single RCA with a different branching pattern, characterized by independent origins of the LAD and CX, with prepulmonary and retroaortic courses, respectively, associated with classic SCM.</p>
      <p>Across these reports, the anomalous origin of the LAD and CX was a common finding, though without the typical high-risk features for ischemia. However, Miura et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> described a left SCA coursing in the posterior sulcus, supplying the posterior descending and posterior left ventricular arteries, and presenting with the same SCM phenotype. A specific epicardial coronary artery distribution alone could not explain the occurrence of SCM in these patients, and the mechanism of myocardial injury remains unclear. All reported cases, including the present one, had a favorable prognosis with complete remission of symptoms.</p>
    </sec>
    <sec sec-type="conclusions">
      <title>Conclusion</title>
      <p>This case is the first to describe the association between a distinct SCM phenotype, the midventricular form, and an isolated right SCA. The potential association between SCM and SCA is of increasing interest, given the growing number of reports despite the rarity of SCA. However, the mechanism predisposing patients with SCA to SCM remains unknown, and a high-risk coronary course alone was absent in most previous reports, as well as in the present case.</p>
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        <p> This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Hospital S&#237;rio Liban&#234;s / Sociedade Beneficente de Senhoras under the protocol number 7.226.271. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.</p>
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        <p> The underlying content of the research text is contained within the manuscript.</p>
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        <p> There were no external funding sources for this study.</p>
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        <article-title>Art&#233;ria Coron&#225;ria &#218;nica e Cardiomiopatia de Estresse: Uma Associa&#231;&#227;o Demonstrada por Imagem Multimodal</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Ferreira</surname>
            <given-names>Marcus Vinicius Silva</given-names>
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          <role>Concep&#231;&#227;o e desenho da pesquisa</role>
          <role>Obten&#231;&#227;o de dados</role>
          <role>Reda&#231;&#227;o do manuscrito</role>
          <role>Revis&#227;o cr&#237;tica do manuscrito quanto ao conte&#250;do intelectual importante</role>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0009-0007-6664-9186</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Tormin</surname>
            <given-names>Julia Pereira Afonso dos Santos</given-names>
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          <role>Concep&#231;&#227;o e desenho da pesquisa</role>
          <role>Obten&#231;&#227;o de dados</role>
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          <name>
            <surname>Dantas</surname>
            <given-names>Roberto Nery</given-names>
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          <role>Concep&#231;&#227;o e desenho da pesquisa</role>
          <role>An&#225;lise e interpreta&#231;&#227;o dos dados</role>
          <role>Revis&#227;o cr&#237;tica do manuscrito quanto ao conte&#250;do intelectual importante</role>
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          <name>
            <surname>Torres</surname>
            <given-names>Roberto Vitor Almeida</given-names>
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          <role>An&#225;lise e interpreta&#231;&#227;o dos dados</role>
          <role>Revis&#227;o cr&#237;tica do manuscrito quanto ao conte&#250;do intelectual importante</role>
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            <given-names>Renan Andreos</given-names>
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          <role>Obten&#231;&#227;o de dados</role>
          <role>Revis&#227;o cr&#237;tica do manuscrito quanto ao conte&#250;do intelectual importante</role>
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          <role>Revis&#227;o cr&#237;tica do manuscrito quanto ao conte&#250;do intelectual importante</role>
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          <name>
            <surname>Cardoso</surname>
            <given-names>Luiz Francisco</given-names>
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        <corresp id="c01002"><label>Correspond&#234;ncia:</label> Marcus Vinicius Silva Ferreira Hospital S&#237;rio-Lib&#226;nes. Rua Dona Adma Jafet, 115. CEP: 01308-050. S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brasil E-mail: marcusvsferreira@gmail.com </corresp>
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        <kwd>Vasos Coron&#225;rios</kwd>
        <kwd>Cardiomiopatia de Takotsubo</kwd>
        <kwd>Angiografia Coron&#225;ria</kwd>
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        <p>Paciente do sexo feminino, de 58 anos, admitida por dor tor&#225;cica retroesternal descrita como aperto opressivo cont&#237;nuo, iniciado dois dias antes, ap&#243;s procedimento de extra&#231;&#227;o dent&#225;ria realizado sob anestesia local ineficaz. Apresentava antecedentes de diabetes mellitus, dislipidemia e c&#226;ncer de ov&#225;rio, em uso de &#225;cido acetilsalic&#237;lico, rosuvastatina, metformina, dapagliflozina e semaglutida. O exame f&#237;sico n&#227;o evidenciou altera&#231;&#245;es. Foi iniciado o protocolo para dor tor&#225;cica, e o eletrocardiograma inicial evidenciou ritmo sinusal com bloqueio divisional anterossuperior esquerdo, repolariza&#231;&#227;o precoce nas deriva&#231;&#245;es inferiores e invers&#227;o da onda T em aVL, V1 e V2 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01002">Figura 1A</xref>). A paciente recebeu 5 mg de dinitrato de isossorbida por via sublingual, e foram coletadas amostras para exames laboratoriais. A troponina T de alta sensibilidade (hs-cTnT) foi de 171 ng/L, confirmando les&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica. Estabeleceu-se o diagn&#243;stico inicial de infarto do mioc&#225;rdio sem supradesnivelamento do segmento ST (IAMSSST), e a paciente foi submetida &#224; cineangiocoronariografia para avalia&#231;&#227;o anat&#244;mica (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f01002">Figura 1</xref> / V&#237;deo S1).</p>
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            <label>Figura 1</label>
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              <title>&#8211; Eletrocardiograma Inicial e Achados da Angiografia Percut&#226;nea. A) Eletrocardiograma inicial demonstrando invers&#227;o da onda T em aVL, V1 e V2. B) A angiografia coronariana revelou uma art&#233;ria coron&#225;ria &#250;nica emergindo do seio coronariano direito, com trajeto an&#244;malo anterior ao cone do ventr&#237;culo direito (VD) e fornecendo os ramos esquerdos. N&#227;o foi identificada estenose coronariana. C) A aortografia n&#227;o revelou anormalidades. D-E) Ventriculografia esquerda em di&#225;stole (D) e s&#237;stole (E), demonstrando acinesia do segmento m&#233;dio do ventr&#237;culo e abaulamento.</title>
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          <label>V&#237;deo S1</label>
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            <title>&#8211; AC percut&#226;nea e ventriculografia esquerda. Em: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S1_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link> </title>
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        <p>A angiografia revelou uma art&#233;ria coron&#225;ria direita (CD) &#250;nica, posteriormente avaliada por angiotomografia computadorizada das art&#233;rias coron&#225;rias (ATCC; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f02002">Figura 2</xref>). Os ramos coronarianos esquerdos originavam-se de um grande ramo marginal direito, com trajeto an&#244;malo anterior ao cone do ventr&#237;culo direito, seguido de trajeto ascendente da art&#233;ria descendente anterior (DA) no sulco interventricular e posterior bifurca&#231;&#227;o em art&#233;ria circunflexa (CX) e art&#233;rias marginais esquerdas (MGE). No entanto, n&#227;o foram observadas placas ateroscler&#243;ticas nem estenoses. A ventriculografia esquerda (V&#237;deo S1) revelou altera&#231;&#245;es segmentares da contratilidade, com acinesia m&#233;dio-ventricular e abaulamento, posteriormente confirmadas pela ecocardiografia (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f03002">Figura 3</xref>/V&#237;deo S2). Esses achados s&#227;o usualmente descritos como o fen&#243;tipo m&#233;dio-ventricular da cardiomiopatia induzida por estresse (CIE).</p>
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            <label>Figura 2</label>
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              <title>&#8211; Achados da Angiotomografia Computadorizada das Art&#233;rias Coron&#225;rias (ATCC). Reconstru&#231;&#245;es card&#237;acas (A-B) e coronarianas (C-E) renderizadas em 3D pela ATCC permitiram melhor visualiza&#231;&#227;o da anatomia coronariana. 1) Art&#233;ria coron&#225;ria direita (CD) &#250;nica emergindo do seio coronariano direito, com trajeto normal pelo sulco atrioventricular; 2) Art&#233;ria marginal direita alongada, com trajeto anterior ao cone do ventr&#237;culo direito, alcan&#231;ando o sulco interventricular anterior; 3) Ramo interventricular anterior com trajeto ascendente, emitindo ramos septais e diagonais (territ&#243;rio da art&#233;ria DA esquerda); 4) Ramo atrioventricular esquerdo com trajeto lateral, ramificando-se em ramos marginais obtusos esquerdos (territ&#243;rio da art&#233;ria CX esquerda).</title>
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            <label>Figura 3</label>
            <caption>
              <title>&#8211; Achados ao Ecocardiograma Transtor&#225;cico (ETT). A-B) ETT em incid&#234;ncia apical quatro c&#226;maras em di&#225;stole (A) e s&#237;stole (B), demonstrando acinesia e abaulamento sist&#243;lico (ballooning) do segmento inferosseptal m&#233;dio (ponta de seta branca). C-D) Incid&#234;ncia paraesternal longitudinal em di&#225;stole (C) e s&#237;stole (D), demonstrando acinesia e abaulamento do segmento anterosseptal m&#233;dio (ponta de seta amarela). E-F) Incid&#234;ncia apical duas c&#226;maras em di&#225;stole (E) e s&#237;stole (F), demonstrando acinesia inferior m&#233;dia (ponta de seta vermelha) e hipocinesia anterior m&#233;dia (ponta de seta azul). O ETT confirmou os achados pr&#233;vios da ventriculografia esquerda, sugestivos de CIE.</title>
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          <label>V&#237;deo S1</label>
          <label>V&#237;deo S2</label>
          <caption>
            <title>&#8211; Ecocardiograma transtor&#225;cico. Em: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S2_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link> </title>
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        <p>A paciente recebeu tratamento de suporte, com melhora da dor e redu&#231;&#227;o da hs-cTnT para 39 ng/L. A resson&#226;ncia magn&#233;tica card&#237;aca (RMC), realizada quatro dias depois, antes da alta hospitalar, demonstrou fra&#231;&#227;o de eje&#231;&#227;o preservada, com discreta hipocinesia das paredes anterior e septal do segmento m&#233;dio do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f04002">Figura 4/</xref> V&#237;deo S3). A sequ&#234;ncia ponderada em T2 com t&#233;cnica short tau inversion recovery (STIR) evidenciou edema nas paredes anterior e septal m&#233;dias, com discreto realce tardio pelo gadol&#237;nio em padr&#227;o mesoc&#225;rdico, interpretado como achado subagudo de CIE. A paciente recebeu alta ap&#243;s sete dias, com remiss&#227;o da dor e sem intercorr&#234;ncias durante a interna&#231;&#227;o.</p>
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          <fig id="f04002">
            <label>Figura 4</label>
            <caption>
              <title>&#8211; Achados da RMC. Imagens cine em sequ&#234;ncia de precess&#227;o livre em estado estacion&#225;rio (SSFP) foram adquiridas na vis&#227;o de duas c&#226;maras em di&#225;stole (A) e s&#237;stole (B), revelando hipocinesia do segmento anterior m&#233;dio (setas verdes). A t&#233;cnica de recupera&#231;&#227;o de invers&#227;o sens&#237;vel &#224; fase (PSIR) com realce tardio por gadol&#237;nio (LGE), na mesma incid&#234;ncia (C), evidenciou realce heterog&#234;neo mesoc&#225;rdico nos segmentos anterior m&#233;dio e inferior m&#233;dio (setas verdes). As imagens cine sist&#243;licas (D), bem como as imagens em sequ&#234;ncia de recupera&#231;&#227;o de invers&#227;o com tempo curto (STIR) e PSIR na vis&#227;o em eixo curto do ventr&#237;culo m&#233;dio (E e F, respectivamente), demonstraram hipocinesia dos segmentos anterior m&#233;dio e anterosseptal, edema transmural (E) e realce tardio mesoc&#225;rdico heterog&#234;neo (F) nos segmentos anterior m&#233;dio, anterosseptal, inferosseptal e inferior (setas vermelhas). Na vis&#227;o de quatro c&#226;maras, as imagens cine sist&#243;licas (G), STIR (H) e PSIR (I) demonstraram hipocinesia, edema e realce tardio mesoc&#225;rdico heterog&#234;neo no segmento inferosseptal m&#233;dio (setas amarelas).</title>
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            <graphic xlink:href="2675-312X-abcic-39-02-e20260023-0023i-gf04-pt.tif"/></fig>
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          <label>V&#237;deo S3</label>
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            <title>&#8211; Sequ&#234;ncias cine de RMC. Em: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4">http://abcimaging.org/supplementary-material/2026/3902/ABCImag-2026-0023_video_S3_-_Takotsubo.mp4</ext-link> </title>
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        <p>A art&#233;ria coron&#225;ria &#250;nica isolada (ACU) &#233; uma anomalia cong&#234;nita rara em que uma &#250;nica art&#233;ria se origina de um &#250;nico &#243;stio coronariano e irriga todo o mioc&#225;rdio, ramificando-se em diferentes padr&#245;es para perfundir os territ&#243;rios coronarianos.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> Embora a maioria dos pacientes permane&#231;a assintom&#225;tica, algumas variantes, particularmente aquelas com trajeto interarterial e intramural, podem favorecer isquemia induzida por esfor&#231;o em decorr&#234;ncia de compress&#227;o extr&#237;nseca causada pelo aumento da pulsa&#231;&#227;o da aorta e da art&#233;ria pulmonar. Esses pacientes apresentam maior risco de morte s&#250;bita card&#237;aca durante o exerc&#237;cio, particularmente os mais jovens, com menos de 30 anos de idade, apresentando art&#233;ria coron&#225;ria esquerda com trajeto interarterial e intramural.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> Al&#233;m disso, origem em &#226;ngulo agudo e trajeto tortuoso podem resultar em fluxo sangu&#237;neo anormal e predispor &#224; doen&#231;a ateroscler&#243;tica em raz&#227;o de les&#227;o endotelial.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Relatos recentes descreveram CIE em pacientes com ACU, mesmo na aus&#234;ncia de trajeto interarterial.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>-<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> A CIE &#233; uma les&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica aguda e transit&#243;ria caracterizada por atordoamento mioc&#225;rdico, isto &#233;, disfun&#231;&#227;o sist&#243;lica regional transit&#243;ria do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo, desencadeada por um evento estressor emocional ou f&#237;sico. Sua apresenta&#231;&#227;o cl&#225;ssica, conhecida como s&#237;ndrome de Takotsubo, consiste em acinesia, hipocinesia ou discinesia ventricular m&#233;dio-apical, associada &#224; hipercinesia basal, resultando em balonamento apical. No entanto, outros fen&#243;tipos tamb&#233;m foram descritos, incluindo o padr&#227;o m&#233;dio-ventricular observado no presente caso.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup> O mecanismo da les&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica ainda n&#227;o est&#225; completamente elucidado. Discute-se que a desregula&#231;&#227;o do sistema nervoso aut&#244;nomo central e o aumento dos n&#237;veis de neuropept&#237;deos relacionados ao estresse possam promover vasoconstri&#231;&#227;o microvascular, comprometimento da perfus&#227;o e atordoamento isqu&#234;mico.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Gr&#228;ni et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref></sup> relataram um caso de CD &#250;nica com trajeto intrasseptal subpulmonar profundo da DA/CX, apresentando o fen&#243;tipo cl&#225;ssico de balonamento apical da CIE (s&#237;ndrome de Takotsubo). Apesar da aus&#234;ncia de trajeto interarterial, o trajeto transeptal foi apontado como poss&#237;vel causa de vasoespasmo, disfun&#231;&#227;o endotelial e CIE. Entretanto, a compress&#227;o extr&#237;nseca como mecanismo potencial n&#227;o foi observada em outros relatos.</p>
        <p>Neiva et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup> descreveram um caso semelhante de CD &#250;nica, com DA e CX hipopl&#225;sicas originando-se de um ramo posterolateral com trajeto anterior ao cone do ventr&#237;culo direito, apresentando CIE cl&#225;ssica com remiss&#227;o completa ap&#243;s sete dias. Salazar Mar&#237;n et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> relataram um caso de CD &#250;nica com padr&#227;o de ramifica&#231;&#227;o distinto, caracterizado por origem independente de DA e CX, com trajetos pr&#233;-pulmonar e retroa&#243;rtico, respectivamente, associado &#224; CIE cl&#225;ssica.</p>
        <p>Nos relatos descritos, a origem an&#244;mala da DA e da CX foi um achado comum, por&#233;m sem caracter&#237;sticas t&#237;picas de alto risco associadas &#224; isquemia. No entanto, Miura et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup> descreveram uma art&#233;ria coron&#225;ria esquerda &#250;nica com trajeto no sulco posterior, irrigando a art&#233;ria descendente posterior e a art&#233;ria ventricular posterior esquerda, apresentando o mesmo fen&#243;tipo de CIE. A distribui&#231;&#227;o territorial espec&#237;fica das art&#233;rias coron&#225;rias epic&#225;rdicas, por si s&#243;, n&#227;o explica a ocorr&#234;ncia de CIE nesses pacientes, e o mecanismo da les&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica permanece incerto. Todos os casos relatados, incluindo o presente, evolu&#237;ram com bom progn&#243;stico e remiss&#227;o completa dos sintomas.</p>
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        <title>Conclus&#227;o</title>
        <p>Este caso &#233; o primeiro a descrever a associa&#231;&#227;o entre um fen&#243;tipo distinto de CIE, o m&#233;dio-ventricular, e uma CD isolada. A poss&#237;vel associa&#231;&#227;o entre CIE e ACU tem despertado interesse em raz&#227;o do n&#250;mero crescente de relatos, apesar da raridade da ACU. No entanto, o mecanismo que predisp&#245;e pacientes com ACU &#224; CIE permanece desconhecido, e um trajeto coronariano de alto risco, isoladamente, esteve ausente na maioria dos relatos pr&#233;vios, bem como no presente caso.</p>
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          <label>Vincula&#231;&#227;o Acad&#234;mica:</label>
          <p> N&#227;o h&#225; vincula&#231;&#227;o deste estudo a programas de p&#243;s-gradua&#231;&#227;o.</p>
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          <label>Aprova&#231;&#227;o &#201;tica e Consentimento Informado:</label>
          <p> Este estudo foi aprovado pelo Comit&#234; de &#201;tica do Hospital S&#237;rio Liban&#234;s / Sociedade Beneficente de Senhoras sob o n&#250;mero de protocolo 7.226.271. Todos os procedimentos envolvidos nesse estudo est&#227;o de acordo com a Declara&#231;&#227;o de Helsinki de 1975, atualizada em 2013. O consentimento informado foi obtido de todos os participantes inclu&#237;dos no estudo.</p>
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          <label>Uso de Intelig&#234;ncia Artificial:</label>
          <p> Os autores n&#227;o utilizaram ferramentas de intelig&#234;ncia artificial no desenvolvimento deste trabalho.</p>
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          <label>Fontes de Financiamento:</label>
          <p> O presente estudo n&#227;o teve fontes de financiamento externas.</p>
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