Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2017 Dec 20;17(1):296.
doi: 10.1186/s12872-017-0731-y.

Takotsubo syndrome - adding pieces to a complex puzzle

Athanassios Manginas  1 , Angelos G Rigopoulos  2 , Boris Bigalke  3 , Stefanos Sakellaropoulos  2 , Muhammad Ali  4 , Sophie Mavrogeni  5 , Michel Noutsias  2
Affiliations
Comment

Takotsubo syndrome - adding pieces to a complex puzzle

Athanassios Manginas et al. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. .

Abstract

Takotsubo syndrome, a form of acutely decompensated heart failure, has drawn interest because of its intriguing pathophysiology and therapeutic dilemmas. In their recent work in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, Abanador-Kamper et al. describe the therapy management in these patients and add valuable information on cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging evolution.

Keywords: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging; Clinical presentation; Heart failure; Takotsubo syndrome; Treatment.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Not applicable.

Consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

AM has participated in advisory boards from Astra-Zeneca, Bayer, ELPEN, Actelion, MSD and Novartis. MN has received grants by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Sonderforschungsbereich Transregio 19 “Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy” (SFB TR19) (TP B2), and by the University Hospital Giessen and Marburg Foundation Grant “T cell functionality” (UKGM 10/2009). MN has been consultant to the IKDT (Institute for Cardiac Diagnosis and Therapy GmbH, Berlin) 06/2004–06/2008, and has received honoraria for presentations and/or participated in advisory boards from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Fresenius, Miltenyi Biotech, Novartis, Pfizer and Zoll. MN and AGR are members of the Editorial Board of Cardiovascular Disorders. The remaining authors, i.e. BB, SS, MA and SM declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Publisher’s Note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Comment on

References

    1. Abanador-Kamper N, Kamper L, Wolfertz J, Pomjanski W, Wolelf-Putz A, Seyfarth M. Evaluation of therapy management and outcome in Takotsubo syndrome. BMC CVD. 2017;17(1):225. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Templin C, Ghadri JR, Diekmann J, et al. Clinical features and outcomes of Takotsubo (Stress) cardiomyopathy. N Engl J Med. 2015;373:929–938. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1406761. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Lyon AR, Bossone E, Schneider B, et al. Current state of knowledge on Takotsubo syndrome: a position statement from the task force on Takotsubo syndrome of the heart failure Association of the European Society of cardiology. Eur J of Heart Failure. 2016;18:8–27. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.424. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Redfors B, Shao Y, Ali A, Omerovic E. Are the different patterns of stress-induced (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy explained by regional mechanical overload and demand:supply mismatch in selected ventricular regions? Med Hypotheses. 2013;81:954–960. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.09.003. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Wittstein IS, Thiemann DR, Lima JAC, Baughman KL, et al. Neurohumoral features of myocardial stunning due to sudden emotional stress. N Engl J Med. 2005;352:539–548. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa043046. - DOI - PubMed