title: Transient cardiac ballooning is not best nomenclature for Takotsubo cardiomyopathy as it does not capture all variants of this syndrome. Stress cardiomyopathy is a much better term for this syndrome.
authors.forename: Mohammad Reza
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Movahed
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000145:classification*; D009626:Terminology as Topic
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