Acute stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy has a dramatic clinical presentation,
mimicking an acute myocardial infarction and is triggered by intense emotional or physical …

Background: Acute stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy can result in a heart failure
phenotype with a prognosis comparable with that of myocardial infarction. In this study, we …

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is an acute stress-induced heart failure syndrome for which the
exact pathogenic mechanisms are unclear, and consequently, no specific treatment exists …

Stress cardiomyopathy (SC) is an increasingly recognized form of acute heart failure, which
has been linked to a wide variety of emotional and physical triggers. The pathophysiological …

Background Takotsubo syndrome is an increasingly recognized cause of chest pain and
occasionally of cardiogenic shock. Despite rapid improvement of the left ventricular (LV) …

Background—In sepsis, whether the assessment of left ventricular global longitudinal
systolic strain (GLS) is feasible and prognostically relevant remains controversial. Methods …

Previous studies have shown that patients with Takotsubo syndrome (TS) have supranormal
nitric oxide signaling, and post-mortem studies of TS heart samples revealed nitrosative …

Background Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a form of transient left ventricular (LV) dysfunction
that usually resolves within days to weeks. Objectives We aimed to assess the predictors …

BACKGROUND Although rapid recovery of cardiac contraction is a hallmark of Takotsubo
cardiomyopathy (TTC), the time course of recovery is still ill-defined. We aimed to investigate …

It is now 30 years since Japanese investigators first described Takotsubo Syndrome (TTS)
as a disorder occurring mainly in ageing women, ascribing it to the impact of multivessel …