Discussion Tako-tsubo or stress cardiomyopathy (also known as apical ballooning syndrome) is a rare, reversible cardiomyopathy. 1 Tako-tsubo is the Japanese word for an “octopus-trapping pot’’ that ...

Pertinent findings on ventriculography, as seen in Figure 1, include: left ventricular apical akinesia during systole causing apical ballooning; left ventricular basal hyperkinesia or basal ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common inherited cardiomyopathy, occurring in about 1 in 500 individuals. 1 The first gene mutation for this condition was identified in a large French Canadian family ...

I've had people say to me, "I had a case of stress cardiomyopathy 5 years ago and the ejection fraction is still 10." And what I'll tell them is that's not stress cardiomyopathy.