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We present a case of a 57-year-old female patient with transient global amnesia, who later developed broken heart syndrome also known as takotsubo cardiomyopathy. The present case underlines that co-occurrence of both pathologies might still be an under-recognized clinical problem.
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S. Quick and U. Speiser contributed equally to this work.
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Quick, S., Speiser, U., Richter, N. et al. Transient global amnesia and broken heart syndrome: two faces of one pathology. Clin Auton Res 25, 189–191 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-015-0284-z
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