Echocardiographic correlates of major adverse cardiac events at 1 year in patients with apical ballooning takotsubo syndrome.
Lauren A FarinaAnjan TibrewalaZhiying MengAbigail S BaldridgeJay M VoitSasan R RaissiMichelle LuSadiya S KhanBenjamin H FreedNausheen AkhterPublished in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2023)
In patients with apical TTS, recovery in GLS and LVEF at follow-up was associated with significantly lower MACE at 1 year. Normalization of GLS at follow-up was better able to discriminate event-free survival than normalization of LVEF.