Stress cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo syndrome) was first described in 1990 in Japan and has since been increasingly recognized around the world which is also known as Stress cardiomyopathy, Broken heart syndrome, or Apical ballooning syndrome and Happy Heart Syndrome is an important form of acute reversible myocardial injury. Stress cardiomyopathy is a clinical syndrome characterized by an Acute and transient (21 days) Left ventricular (LV) systolic (and diastolic) dysfunction related to an emotional or physically stressful event, most often identified in the preceding days (1 to 5 days).
Stress cardiomyopathy occurs in approximately 1 to 2 percent of patients presenting with troponin-positive suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or suspected ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Stress cardiomyopathy is suspected on the basis of the clinical syndrome, ECG abnormalities, Mild elevation of…
