Beschreibung:
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is a heart disease characterized by left ventricular dysfunction. Its clinical presentation frequently mimics acute myocardial infarction and the disease mainly occurs in postmenopausal women after exposure to emotional or physical stress. High catecholamine concentrations have been suggested as the primary cause of TTS. Since a genetic predisposition is presumed to be very likely, the A first breakthrough in understanding the still unknown pathomechanism of TTS was the work published by Wittstein and his colleagues in 2005, that suggested high catecholamine concen...