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  • Takotsubo Syndrome in COVID-19 Requires Elucidation of the Pathophysiological Background

    With interest we read the article by Kong et al. about two SARS-CoV-2 infected patients with Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) complicated by cardiogenic shock [  ]. Patient-1 (88yo male with metastatic prostate cancer) deceased but patient-2 (79yo female with multiple sclerosis) recovered [  ]. It was concluded that TTS should remain on the differential in the setting of arrhythmias, systolic dysfunction, cardiac biomarker elevation, or ST-elevation [  ]. We have the following comments and concerns.

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