We would like to thank John Madias for his interest in our review about the mystery of the pathogenesis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) .1 We agree with his semantic restraint of the eponym Wellens electrocardiographic (ECG) pattern, which needs a contextual disambiguation. Indeed, as stressed by Dr. Madias in a previous letter to the editor, this term is often used incorrectly in the literature2,3 . In this respect, through the words of Cato: "Nos vera vocabula rerum amisimus"4 (we have lost the real names of things), we would like to emphasize how the scientific world suffers from a sort of daily linguistic Babel, where words seem to have lost their capacity to communicate. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Author Response to LTE CLC 22970 of John Madias: Brain-heart pathway to injury in takotsubo syndrome
Marafioti, Vincenzo
;Monaco, Salvatore
2018-01-01
Abstract
We would like to thank John Madias for his interest in our review about the mystery of the pathogenesis of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) .1 We agree with his semantic restraint of the eponym Wellens electrocardiographic (ECG) pattern, which needs a contextual disambiguation. Indeed, as stressed by Dr. Madias in a previous letter to the editor, this term is often used incorrectly in the literature2,3 . In this respect, through the words of Cato: "Nos vera vocabula rerum amisimus"4 (we have lost the real names of things), we would like to emphasize how the scientific world suffers from a sort of daily linguistic Babel, where words seem to have lost their capacity to communicate. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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