title: Contemporary Imaging in Takotsubo Syndrome.
abstract: Transthoracic echocardiography is the first-line imaging modality for evaluating patients with Takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Beyond diagnosis, TTE enables detection of peculiar complications and is useful for risk stratification and management of patients with cardiogenic shock. Cardiac magnetic resonance can be used to detect myocardial edema typically associated with TTS and is helpful in the differential diagnosis with other disease states. Coronary computed tomography angiography can be performed as an alternative to coronary angiography to confirm coronary artery patency. Molecular imaging is a promising approach for identifying patients at increased risk of recurrence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona," Heart Tower Room 810, Largo Città di Ippocrate, Salerno 84131, Italy. Electronic address: rodolfocitro@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rodolfo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Citro
authors.affiliation: Centro Cardiolgico Monzino, IRCCS, Via Carlo Parea 4, 20138, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pontone
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine and Surgery, Schola Medica Salernitana, University of Salerno, Via Salvador Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Salerno), Italy.
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pace
authors.affiliation: Cardiology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Piazza Pugliatti 1, 98122 Messina, Italy.
authors.forename: Concetta
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zito
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona," Heart Tower Room 810, Largo Città di Ippocrate, Salerno 84131, Italy.
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Silverio
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona," Heart Tower Room 810, Largo Città di Ippocrate, Salerno 84131, Italy.
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bossone
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona," Heart Tower Room 810, Largo Città di Ippocrate, Salerno 84131, Italy; Department of Medicine and Surgery, Schola Medica Salernitana, University of Salerno, Via Salvador Allende, 84081 Baronissi (Salerno), Italy.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Piscione
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / Q000379:methods; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000379:methods; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods
keywords: Apical ballooning syndrome; Cardiac magnetic resonance; Coronary computed tomography angiography; Echocardiography; Positron emission tomography; Single photon emission computed tomography; Stress cardiomyopathy; Takotsubo syndrome