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Letter to the Editor| Volume 398, P193, March 15, 2019

Seizure-triggered Takotsubo syndrome – A need for cooperation between neurologists and cardiologists

Published:January 14, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2019.01.016
      We thank Dr. Binaghi et al. for their thoughtful comments about our review article “Immediate versus delayed detection of Takotsubo syndrome after epileptic seizures” [
      • Stöllberger C.
      • Sauerberg M.
      • Finsterer J.
      Immediate versus delayed detection of Takotsubo syndrome after epileptic seizures.
      ]. For this article we included only reports which provided information about the interval between the epileptic seizure and the detection of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) as well as studies that reported the 12‑lead electrocardiogram. Thus no information about prevalence and prognosis of seizure-associated TTS can be derived from our data.

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