As first described in Japan in 1990 by Sato et al., takotsubo, a Japanese word meaning “octopus pot”, was used to describe the characteristic left ventricular apical ballooning on imaging studies [11]. TTC can mimic acute coronary syndrome with similar clinical presentation, electrocardiographic ...
The name “takotsubo” was given due to the appearances of the left ventricle in imaging bearing a resemblance to a round-bottomed pot with a narrow neck used by Japanese sailors to entrap octopuses [11,12]. As the recognition of TTS has grown, there have been different names used to ...