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What triggers Takotsubo in cases without an obvious trigger?

Author(s) -

Josef Finsterer,

Claudia Stöllberger

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.83

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 2223-3660

pISSN - 2223-3652

DOI - 10.21037/cdt.2018.10.17

Subject(s) - medicine , rheumatoid arthritis , pericarditis , takotsubo syndrome , chest pain , magnetic resonance imaging , cardiac magnetic resonance imaging , cardiac magnetic resonance , cardiology , cardiomyopathy , radiology , heart failure

We read with interest the article by Mori et al . about a 64-year-old female with a history of rheumatoid arthritis starting 8 years earlier, who developed Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) 3 days prior to admission for chest pain and dyspnoea (1). No definite trigger for TTS was detected but cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cMRI) suggested the presence of pericarditis, which was assumed not to have been causative (1). We have the following comments and concerns.

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