Do older patients get takotsubo syndrome differently?

作     者：Monika Budnik Janusz Kochanowski Martyna Zaleska Grzegorz Opolski 

作者机构：Department of Cardiology Medical University of Warsaw 

出 版 物：《Journal of Geriatric Cardiology》 (老年心脏病学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第16卷第12期

页      面：909-910页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Takotsubo syndrome 

摘      要：We read with great interest case report of 99-year-old patient with takotsubo syndrome(TTS)presented by Yenerçağ,et al.,[1]especially because four years ago,we described the oldest so far person diagnosed with TTS:a 98-year old woman.[2]During analysis of your article a few comments and questions occurred to *** is usually preceded with a stress factor.[3]Do you know,or can you suspect the TTS cause in this patient?Was she diagnosed with primary or secondary TTS?TTS often occurs in people with ongoing or previous neurological or psychiatric disorder.[4]The patient had history of Alzheimer’s *** she have any new neurological symptoms during described hospitalization?A very good diagnostic test for TTS is NT-proBNP to troponin I ratio.[5]