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Age-Related Variations in Takotsubo Syndrome

Victoria L Cammann, Konrad A Szawan, Barbara E Stähli, Ken Kato, Monika Budnik, Manfred Wischnewsky, Sara Dreiding, Rena A Levinson, Davide Di Vece, Sebastiano Gili, Rodolfo Citro, Eduardo Bossone, Michael Neuhaus, Jennifer Franke, Benjamin Meder, Miłosz 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, Marco Roffi, Adrian Banning, Mathias Wolfrum, Florim Cuculi, Richard Kobza, Thomas A Fischer, Tuija Vasankari, K E Juhani Airaksinen, L Christian Napp, 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, Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Ibrahim Akin, Karolina Poledniková, Petr Toušek, David E Winchester, Jan Galuszka, Christian Ukena, Gregor Poglajen, Pedro Carrilho-Ferreira, Christian Hauck, Carla Paolini, Claudio Bilato, Yoshio Kobayashi, Toshihiro Shoji, Iwao Ishibashi, Masayuki Takahara, Toshiharu Himi, Jehangir Din, Ali Al-Shammari, 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, Ruediger C Braun-Dullaeus, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Gerd Hasenfuß, Burkert M Pieske, Heribert Schunkert, Martin Borggrefe, 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, Jelena R Ghadri, Grzegorz Opolski & Christian Templin

abstract

BACKGROUND
Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) occurs predominantly in post-menopausal women but is also found in younger patients.

OBJECTIVES
This study aimed to investigate age-related differences in TTS.

METHODS
Patients diagnosed with TTS and enrolled in the International Takotsubo Registry between January 2011 and February 2017 were included in this analysis and were stratified by age (younger: ≤50 years, middle-age: 51 to 74 years, elderly: ≥75 years). Baseline characteristics, hospital course, as well as short- and long-term mortality were compared among groups.

RESULTS
Of 2,098 TTS patients, 242 (11.5%) patients were ≤50 years of age, 1,194 (56.9%) were 51 to 74 years of age, and 662 (31.6%) were ≥75 years of age. Younger patients were more often men (12.4% vs. 10.9% vs. 6.3%; p = 0.002) and had an increased prevalence of acute neurological (16.3% vs. 8.4% vs. 8.8%; p = 0.001) or psychiatric disorders (14.1% vs. 10.3% vs. 5.6%; p < 0.001) compared with middle-aged and elderly TTS patients. Furthermore, younger patients had more often cardiogenic shock (15.3% vs. 9.1% vs. 8.1%; p = 0.004) and had a numerically higher in-hospital mortality (6.6% vs. 3.6% vs. 5.1%; p = 0.07). At multivariable analysis, younger (odds ratio: 1.60; 95% confidence interval: 0.86 to 3.01; p = 0.14) and older age (odds ratio: 1.09; 95% confidence interval: 0.66 to 1.80; p = 0.75) were not independently associated with in-hospital mortality using the middle-aged group as a reference. There were no differences in 60-day mortality rates among groups.

CONCLUSIONS
A substantial proportion of TTS patients are younger than 50 years of age. TTS is associated with severe complications requiring intensive care, particularly in younger patients.
   
citation Cammann V L, Szawan K A, Stähli B E, Kato K, Budnik M, Wischnewsky M, Dreiding S, Levinson R A, Di Vece D, Gili S, Citro R, Bossone E, Neuhaus M, Franke J, Meder B, Jaguszewski M, Noutsias M, Knorr M, Heiner S, D'Ascenzo F, Dichtl W, Burgdorf C, Kherad B, Tschöpe C, Sarcon A, Shinbane J, Rajan L, Michels G, Pfister R, Cuneo A, Jacobshagen C, Karakas M, Koenig W, Pott A, Meyer P, Roffi M, Banning A, Wolfrum M, Cuculi F, Kobza R, Fischer T A, Vasankari T, Airaksinen K E J, Napp L C, Dworakowski R, MacCarthy P, Kaiser C, Osswald S, Galiuto L, Chan C, Bridgman P, Beug D, Delmas C, Lairez O, Gilyarova E, Shilova A, Gilyarov M, El-Battrawy I, Akin I, Poledniková K, Toušek P, Winchester D E, Galuszka J, Ukena C, Poglajen G, Carrilho-Ferreira P, Hauck C, Paolini C, Bilato C, Kobayashi Y, Shoji T, Ishibashi I, Takahara M, Himi T, Din J, Al-Shammari A, Prasad A, Rihal C S, Liu K, Schulze P C, Bianco M, Jörg L, Rickli H, Pestana G, Nguyen T H, Böhm M, Maier L S, Pinto F J, Widimský P, Felix S B, Braun-Dullaeus R C, Rottbauer W, Hasenfuß G, Pieske B M, Schunkert H, Borggrefe M, Thiele H, Bauersachs J, Katus H A, Horowitz J D, Di Mario C, Münzel T, Crea F, Bax J J, Lüscher T F, Ruschitzka F, Ghadri J R, Opolski G, Templin C. Age-Related Variations in Takotsubo Syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol 2020; 75:1869-1877.
   
type journal paper/review (English)
date of publishing 2020
journal title J Am Coll Cardiol (75/16)
ISSN electronic 1558-3597
pages 1869-1877
PubMed 32327096
DOI 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.02.057