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Comment
. 2010 Apr;33(4):241-2; author reply 242.
doi: 10.1002/clc.20742.

Transient cardiac ballooning is not best nomenclature for Takotsubo cardiomyopathy as it does not capture all variants of this syndrome. Stress cardiomyopathy is a much better term for this syndrome

Mohammad Reza Movahed
Comment

Transient cardiac ballooning is not best nomenclature for Takotsubo cardiomyopathy as it does not capture all variants of this syndrome. Stress cardiomyopathy is a much better term for this syndrome

Mohammad Reza Movahed. Clin Cardiol. 2010 Apr.
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