Tako-tsubo syndrome

PubMed, the Internet portal of biomedical and life sciences literature, indexed an interesting article, entitled “Ventricular arrhythmias during Tako-tsubo syndrome.” (Int J Cardiol. 2007 Aug 14). Authors are Bonello L, Com O, Ait-Moktar O, et al., from the Département de cardiologie, Hôpital universitaire Nord, Marseille, France. Tako-tsubo syndrome is a recently described form of cardiomyopathy. Its pathophysiology remains unknown. However, the main demographic, clinical, electrocardiographic and biologic characteristics of the disease have been described by previous reports. Retrospective studies are essential to help describe this rare disease, although they might have several skews. Previous reports have observed a mortality rate between 0 and 8%. Tako-tsubo syndrome may present as sudden death and its mortality rate may have been underestimated in previous reports. To access the full abstract of the article, click here.