Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Victoria L Cammann, Ken Kato, Konrad A Szawan, Davide Di Vece, Aurelio Rossi, Manfred Wischnewsky, Julia Hermes-Laufer, Sebastiano Gili, Rodolfo Citro, Eduardo Bossone, Michael Neuhaus, Jennifer Franke, Benjamin Meder, Milosz Jaguszewski, Michel Noutsias, Maike Knorr, Susanne Heiner, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, Wolfgang Dichtl, Christof Burgdorf, Behrouz Kherad, Carsten Tschöpe, Annahita Sarcon, Jerold Shinbane, Lawrence Rajan, Guido Michels, Roman Pfister, Alessandro Cuneo, Claudius Jacobshagen, Mahir Karakas, Wolfgang Koenig, Alexander Pott, Philippe Meyer, Jose David Arroja, Adrian Banning, Florim Cuculi, Richard Kobza, Thomas A Fischer, Tuija Vasankari, K E Juhani Airaksinen, L Christian Napp, Monika Budnik, Rafal Dworakowski, Philip MacCarthy, Christoph Kaiser, Stefan Osswald, Leonarda Galiuto, Christina Chan, Paul Bridgman, Daniel Beug, Clément Delmas, Olivier Lairez, Ekaterina Gilyarova, Alexandra Shilova, Mikhail Gilyarov, Martin Kozel, Petr Tousek, David E Winchester, Jan Galuszka, Christian Ukena, Gregor Poglajen, Pedro Carrilho-Ferreira, Christian Hauck, Carla Paolini, Claudio Bilato, Yoshio Kobayashi, Abhiram Prasad, Charanjit S Rihal, Kan Liu, P Christian Schulze, Matteo Bianco, Lucas Jörg, Hans Rickli, Gonçalo Pestana, Thanh H Nguyen, Michael Böhm, Lars S Maier, Fausto J Pinto, Petr Widimský, Stephan B Felix, Grzegorz Opolski, Ruediger C Braun-Dullaeus, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Gerd Hasenfuß, Burkert M Pieske, Heribert Schunkert, Holger Thiele, Johann Bauersachs, Hugo A Katus, John D Horowitz, Carlo Di Mario, Thomas Münzel, Filippo Crea, Jeroen J Bax, Thomas F Lüscher, Frank Ruschitzka, Firat Duru, Martin Borggrefe, Jelena R Ghadri, Ibrahim Akin, Christian Templin
Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a major risk factor for mortality. The prevalence, clinical correlates, and prognostic impact of AF in Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) have not yet been investigated in a large patient cohort. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence, clinical correlates, and prognostic impact of AF in patients with TTS. Methods and Results Patients with TTS were enrolled from the International Takotsubo Registry, which is a multinational network with 26 participating centers in Europe and the United States...
August 3, 2021: Journal of the American Heart Association