Publications by authors named "Ioana Sorici-Barb"
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates ethnic differences in clinical characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of takotsubo syndrome (TTS) patients from Japan and Europe.
- Japanese patients tend to be older, more male, and experience more physical triggers for TTS, along with higher rates of cardiogenic shock and in-hospital mortality compared to European patients.
- Despite worse in-hospital outcomes for Japanese patients, ethnicity itself does not influence mortality rates; rather, the type of physical stressors is the key prognostic factor for both groups.
Aims: Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is an acute heart failure syndrome, which shares many features with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Although TTS was initially described with angiographically normal coronary arteries, smaller studies recently indicated a potential coexistence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in TTS patients. This study aimed to determine the coexistence, features, and prognostic role of CAD in a large cohort of patients with TTS.
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