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Reply to the letter to the editor by F. Tona et al.
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We appreciate the interest of Dr Tona and colleagues in our case report on assessment of serial transthoracic coronary flow reserve (CFR) measurements in a patient with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC).1
Because myocardial biopsy or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has not been performed in our patient, they state that the transient impairment of coronary flow reserve (CFR) in parallel to transient wall motion abnormalities (WMA) argue for the diagnosis of myocarditis instead of TTC. We would like to bring additive