Tag: Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy

Brutsaert’s hypothesis on preferential LV apical involvement in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Johnson Francis | April 22, 2012

Brutsaert’s hypothesis on Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: LV apex is the most trabeculated and thinnest portion of LV causing catecholamine damage most here.

General Cardiology

Inverted Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Johnson Francis | May 19, 2009

"Inverted Takotsubo" cardiomyopathy is a variant of Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy in which there is hyperkinesis of apex with mid ventricular ballooning.