For the past 25 years there has been an accelerating stream of literature reports on a pathological entity, called Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) (2,882 items in Pubmed, in response to the MeSH term “takotsubo”, as of 4/5/16),1 a term coined by Sato et al,2 and Dote and al,3 when they described in 1990 and 1991 respectively a transient left ventricular (LV) dysfunctional state, which make the angiogr...

Tako-Tsubo syndrome occurs predominantly in women over 60 years of age with a history of stress. The presentation resembles acute coronary syndrome, with electrocardiogram changes that normalize within 97-191 days.1 The echocardiogram shows decreased apical contractility with basal hyperkinesia and occasionally, intraventricular gradients,2 and the alterations return in 1-3 weeks. Enzyme elevat...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AD: Alzheimer Dementia; AMI: Acute Myocardial Infarction; PCI: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; NCS: Neurocardiogenic syncope; POTS: Postural Tachycardia Syndrome; MCA: Middle Cerebral Artery; SUDEP: Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy; TTS: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy; AED: Anti-Epileptic Drugs; SAH: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; NPE: Ne...