Table 2.
Clinical Profile of Takotsubo Syndrome.
| Parameter | Templin et al.10 |
Ghadri et al.11 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Broken Heart | Happy Heart | ||
| Total number of patients | 1750 | 460 | 20 |
| Women% | 89.8 | 74.5 | 75 |
| Mean Age (yrs) | 66.8 | 65 | 71.4 |
| Chest Pain (%) | 75.9 | 72.2 | 89.5 |
| Dyspnoea (%) | 46.9 | 46.6 | 26.3 |
| Cardiac Shock (%) | 9.9 | 3.7 | NONE |
| ECG ST elevation (%) | 43.7 | 44.5 | 50 |
| Mean EF (%) | 40.7 | 42.6 | 40.2 |
| Co-existing neurologic/psychiatric illness (%) | 46.8 | Not described | Not described |
| Triggers (%) | 87.3 | 100 | |
| Emotional | 28.7 | ||
| Physical | 36 | ||
| Coronary angiography | Normal 85% | Normal | Normal |
| Co-Existing CAD 15% | |||
| LV wall motion akinesia pattern (%) | |||
| Apical | 81.7 | 79.8 | 65 |
| Mid-Ventricular | 14.6 | 16.3 | 35 |
| Basal | 2.2 | 1.9 | – |
| Focal | 1.5 | 1.9 | – |
| Mortality (%) | 4.1 | 1.1 | None |
(ECG: electrocardiogram, EF–ejection fraction, LV–left ventricle).