Author Response

Authors’ Response

Authors: Tamunoinemi Bob-Manuel, MD, Sameh Askandar, MD, Rami N. Khouzam, MD

Abstract

To the Editor: The authors thank Dr Madias for his interest in our work. We discussed the possibility of takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC) and reverse TTC (rTTC) being a transient evolution of the same disease, given multiple reports in the literature of patients displaying temporal changes of akinetic areas during TTC with varying timelines.

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