Published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Modelling human diseases serves as a crucial tool to unveil underlying mechanisms and pathophysiology. Takotsubo syndrome (TS), an acute form of heart failure resembling myocardial infarction, manifests with reversible regional wall motion abnormalities (RWMA) of the ventricles. Despite its mortality and clinical similarity to myocardial infarction...
Published in Cardiology
Introduction: Secretoneurin (SN) is a novel biomarker that provides prognostic information in patients with cardiovascular disease. In experimental models, SN production is increased in the failing myocardium. Currently, no information is available on SN production in human myocardium. Accordingly, we wanted to determine the trans-cardiac gradient ...
Published in Current problems in cardiology
Various rates of the short- and long-term recurrence of takotsubo syndrome (TTS) (RTTS) have been reported, but the absence, or the short length of the follow-up implemented is such, that the true rate of RTTS continues to be unknown. Experience has shown that a sizeable proportion of patients with an index TTS suffer a RTTS episode beyond 5 years,...
Published in Cardiology
Background: Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a cardiac disorder that mimics acute coronary syndrome at presentation. While previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between body mass index (BMI) and outcomes in acute coronary syndrome, few have examined its relationship with TTS. Methods: Using the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination databa...
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a transient left ventricle dysfunction usually caused by a stressful trigger (emotional or physical). We report the case of a 77 year-old female patient who presented with TTS caused by a pheochromocytoma, a catecholamine-producing neuroendocrine tumour. Diagnosis was facilitated by acute kidney injury prompting renal ul...
Published in Autoimmunity reviews
Describe the characteristics of patients presenting with TTS during the course of a broad spectrum of systemic diseases, in comparison to classic TTS. French multicenter retrospective case-control study completed by a literature review. 19 new cases were included in the study. The literature review identified 25 previously published cases. Among th...
Aims: Takotsubo syndrome (TS) is a heart condition mimicking acute myocardial infarction. TS is characterized by a sudden weakening of the heart muscle, usually triggered by physical or emotional stress. In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of pharmacological interventions on short- and long-term mortality in patients with TS. Methods ...
Published in Hellenic journal of cardiology : HJC = Hellenike kardiologike epitheorese
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is not usually diagnosed until patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and echocardiographically detected apical aneurysm are found to have "normal" coronary angiography (CA). Our aim was to explore whether cardiac biomarkers can contribute to the early diagnosis of TTS. Ratios of N-terminal-pro brain natriure...
Published in European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care
Arrhythmia is a major complication of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). However, its incidence, management, and prognostic impact remain to be elucidated in a large cohort. We retrospectively identified 16 713 patients hospitalized for TTS between July 2010 and March 2021 from the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database. Serious arrhythmias were ...
Published in Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine
The Stroke-Heart syndrome is a major chapter in neurocardiology. Both brain-heart and stroke-heart correlations are based on neurophysiological studies that define and describe the relation between the central autonomic system and cardiac function and it will be presented in this narrative review. The Stroke-Heart syndrome groups the entire spectru...
