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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is also known as a transient apical ballooning syndrome, apical ballooning cardiomyopathy, stress-induced cardiomyopathy, stress cardiomyopathy, and Gebrochenes-Herz syndrome, and broken-heart syndrome is a form of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy and predominantly affects post-menopausal women.[4] It is characterized by transient regional systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease or acute plaque rupture. In most takotsubo cardiomyopathy cases, the regional wall motion abnormality extends beyond the territory perfused by a single epicardial coronary artery. The term takotsubo is a Japanese name for an octopus trap. It has a shape that is similar to the systolic apical ballooning appearance of the left ventricle.
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