Speckle tracking in patients with atypical Takotsubo syndrome: seek, and ye shall find!

Response letter to the editor

“…[1] Referring to another commend made by Dr. Madias, an evaluation of the type-I patients with serial speckle-tracking TTE analysis could provide more definite evidence that some of type-I group had reversible carbon monoxide (CO)-induced cardiomyopathy. [2,3] However, within this study, we could not re-evaluate the patients with serial speckle tracking. We discussed possible mechanism of COinduced cardiomyopathy according to type and reported that pathophysiology of type-III cardiomyopathy had similar features to pathophysiology of the takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM).…”