Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a poorly understood myocardial disorder that is generally considered to be a transient, non-ischaemic disease with a favourable prognosis in postmenopausal women. Its profile is typically characterised by cardiomyopathy involving regional wall motion abnormalities after a stressful event, but is also associated with serious life-threatening complications in up to 10%...

Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of cardiac diseases that can either be acquired through, for example, inflammation (myocarditis), be stress-induced (tako-tsubo), or be due to a genetic cause [5,6]. Examples of genetic forms are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, and left-ventricular non-compaction cardiomy...

Stress cardiomyopathy, tako-tsubo syndrome, and transient apical dyskinesia are names given to a cardiac syndrome commonly characterized by left ventricular systolic dysfunction generally involving the apical portion with hyperkinetic basal segments. Atypical variants showing akinesia of the middle portion of the ventricle have also been documented. Stress cardiomyopathy commonly occurs in wome...