Cardiomyopathy is a disease that affects your myocardium (heart muscle). Cardiomyopathy can make your heart stiffen, enlarge or thicken and can cause scar tissue. As a result, your heart can’t pump blood effectively to the rest of your body. In time, your heart can weaken and cardiomyopathy can lead to heart failure. Treatment can help. Introduction. Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a clinical condition characterized by the appearance of transient alterations of left ventricular parietal kinetics in association with symptoms, increased myocardial-cytonecrosis indices, electrocardiogram (ECG) alterations in the absence of a culprit coronary lesion, frequently secondary to significant physical or psychological stress. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) is a transient cardiac syndrome that typically causes mid-ventricular circumferential and apical hypokinesis mimicking an acute coronary syndrome. In TTC, acute coronary or microvascular spasms can result in stunning of the myocardium with left ventricular dysfunction caused by catecholamine release due to emotion Generally, somewhere between 3% and 17% of takotsubo patients die within five years of diagnosis. Don’t older people quite often die within five years anyway? Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute myocardial disease characterized by reversible left ventricular dysfunction, in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease, caused by adrenergic overactivity and associated with non-negligible morbidity and mortality. Takotsubo syndrome, by far more frequent in women, who account for 9 out of 10 The particular name “Takotsubo” was used to describe the cardiomyopathy due to the characteristic apical ballooning on left ventriculography which was similar in shape to a Japanese octopus trap. It is also referred to as “broken heart”, “apical ballooning syndrome”, “myocardial stunning”, or “stress cardiomyopathy”. Background Dyspnea is a common symptom in patients presenting to the emergency department. It has a variety of causes that range from non-urgent to life-threatening. One episode of dyspnea in a healthy young person is easy to overlook. However, if the symptoms occur after physically or emotionally stressful events, careful evaluation needs to be undertaken because it may be associated with Takotsubo syndrome (TTS), also known as stress cardiomyopathy and broken heart syndrome, is a neurocardiac condition that is among the most dramatic manifestations of psychosomatic disorders. This paper is based on a systematic review of TTS and stress cardiomyopathy using a PubMed literature search. Typically, an episode of severe emotional or physical stress precipitates regions of left The term takotsubo (tako = octopus, tsubo = a pot) was introduced by Sato and Dote in 1990 and 1991 to describe the left ventricular silhouette during systole in five patients presenting with clinical features of myocardial infarction but without obstructive coronary artery disease [ 2, 3 ]. The syndrome has a clinical and electrocardiographic Takotsubo cardiomyopathy presents in a manner similar to that of acute myocardial infarction, but ventricular systolic function usually returns to normal within a few weeks. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of fatal left ventricular rupture associated with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. XXL4Gp.