CRP and Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: In recent studies, there are different opinions on the specificity and sensitivity of parameters mentioned above in patients with AC and patients with sepsis caused by AC: Beliaev et al. have found that lymphocyte count, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and CRP have the highest discriminative powers to diagnose patients with AC, while WBC and albumin have the poorest [15]; Qin et al. have figured out that abnormal WBC and CRP are two independent risks for ASC, and a high level of CRP indicates the presence of severe sepsis [1].