Jelena R. Ghadri

TL;DR: Patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy had a higher prevalence of neurologic or psychiatric disorders than did those with an acute coronary syndrome and physical triggers, acute neurologics or psychiatric diseases, high troponin levels, and a low ejection fraction on admission were independent predictors for in-hospital complications.

TL;DR: The quantification of MFR in 13N-ammonia PET/CT MPI provides a substantial added diagnostic value for detection of CAD, particularly in patients with normal MPI results, which helps to unmask clinically significant CAD.

TL;DR: It is shown that diffuse renal artery constriction and local tissue damage at the ablation site with oedema and thrombus formation occur after RNA and that OCT visualizes vascular lesions not apparent on angiography, which suggests that dual antiplatelet therapy may be required during RNA.

TL;DR: An in-vitro induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) model of Takotsubo syndrome was established to test the hypothesis of altered β-adrenergic signaling in TTS iPSC-cardiomyocytes (CMs), and to explore whether genetic susceptibility underlies the pathogenesis of TTS.

TL;DR: The estimation of absolute MBF index values by CZT SPECT MPI with 99mTc-tetrofosmin is technically feasible, although hyperemic values are significantly lower than from PET with 13N-ammonia, resulting in a substantial underestimation of MFR.