A syndrome of transient left ventricular apical wall motion abnormality in the absence of coronary disease: A perspective from the United States

Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 61-66

  Seth, Paula S ^a   Aurigemma, Gerard P ^a   Krasnow, Joshua M ^a   Tighe, Dennis A ^a   Untereker, William J ^b   Meyer, Theo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical wall motion; Cardiomyopathy; Chest pain; Echocardiography; Reversibility; T wave; Takotsubo; Ventricular function, left

Indexed keywords

HEART ENZYME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; THORAX;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORONARY DISEASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE, MB FORM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; NECROSIS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE VOLUME; SYNDROME; TROPONIN I; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0142025406     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073040     Document Type: Review

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