A serious clinical course of a very elderly patient with takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-81

  Sakai, Kenya ^a   Ochiai, Hiroyuki ^a   Katayama, Norihiko ^a   Nakamura, Kenji ^a   Arataki, Keiko ^a   Kido, Tamako ^a   Iwamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamura, Satoe ^a   Nakanishi, Toshio ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Left ventricular dysfunction; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VOMITING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOREXIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DIURETICS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VOMITING;

EID: 15844411107     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-004-0771-y     Document Type: Article

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