To the Editor— Electrocardiogram correlates of myocardial edema in patients with Takotsubo syndrome

Response to Association of Prolonged QTc Interval With Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: A Neurocardiac Syndrome Inside the Mystery of the Insula of Reil

“…1 We agree with his semantic restraint of the eponym Wellens electrocardiographic pattern, which needs a contextual disambiguation.As stressed by Dr. Madias in a previous letter to the editor, this term is often used incorrectly in the literature. 2,3 In this respect, through the words of Cato: "Nos vera vocabula rerum amisimus" 4 (We have lost the real names of things), we would like to emphasize how the scientific world suffers from a sort of daily linguistic Babel, where words seem to have lost their capacity to communicate. Many neologisms are rarely based on solid etymological principles, and not always validated by the authority of a dictionary of scientific terminology.…”