Long-term Benefits of Risk Factor Reduction in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.-A Comment on Khalighi et al. Entitled "Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: A Long Term Follow-up Shows Benefit with Risk Factor Reduction", J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis., 2015, 2, 273-281

Shiva P Ponamgi; Abhishek Deshmukh

doi:10.3390/jcdd3010003

Long-term Benefits of Risk Factor Reduction in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.-A Comment on Khalighi et al. Entitled "Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: A Long Term Follow-up Shows Benefit with Risk Factor Reduction", J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis., 2015, 2, 273-281

J Cardiovasc Dev Dis. 2016 Jan 25;3(1):3. doi: 10.3390/jcdd3010003.

Authors

Shiva P Ponamgi¹, Abhishek Deshmukh²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health System, Austin, MN 55912, USA. Ponamgi.Shiva@mayo.edu.
² Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Deshmukh.Abhishek@mayo.edu.

Abstract

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) or stress-induced cardiomyopathy is also popularly referred to as "broken heart syndrome" or "apical ballooning syndrome". [...].

Keywords: Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; long term; risk factors.