Letter Regarding Article, "Electrocardiogram in a Patient with Takotsubo Syndrome and Cardiogenic Shock"
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I read with interest the paper by Yoo et al., published in the March, 2016 issue of the Journal, about the 41-year-old previously healthy woman, who suffered Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) complicated by cardiogenic shock, necessitating resuscitation and invasive supportive means of extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, with eventual full recovery of her heart function. The patient’s first electrocardiogram (ECG) (Fig. 1A) recorded on her 2nd visit to the hospital, showed low QRS complexes, in keeping with a recent report, associating transient attenuation of the ECG QRS complexes (attQRS) and TTS. It is difficult to compare this ECG with the one recorded 1month after discharge (Fig. 1B), since the upper panel of the figure has half pISSN 1975-4612 / eISSN 2005-9655 Copyright © 2016 Korean Society of Echocardiography www.kse-jcu.org
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First of all, we would like to appreaciate your deep interest in our case report. Fortunately, we have a previous electrocardiogram (ECG) of the patient before the symptom onset (Fig. 1). And we did check the serial ECGs during the admission. At initial admission, there were no prominent ST and voltage changes in precordial leads (Fig. 2). Follow-up ECG taken after 3 hours from the first ECG sh...
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