title: Cardiac Sympathetic Disturbance in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Primary Etiology or a Compensatory Response to Heart Failure?
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: wchen5@umm.edu.
authors.forename: Wengen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors.forename: Vasken
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dilsizian
mesh_terms: D006321:Heart; D006333:Heart Failure; D006801:Humans; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
keywords: heart failure; iodine-123–meta-iodobenzylguanidine (mIBG); myocardial stunning; radionuclide imaging; sympathetic innervation; takotsubo cardiomyopathy