Tako-tsubo left ventricular dysfunction caused by a fall [3]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2233-2235

  Kojima, Taro ^a   Eto, Masato ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Yamaguchi, Kiyoshi ^a   Kozaki, Koichi ^a   Akishita, Masahiro ^a   Ouchi, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AKINESIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; OCTOPUS; PLEURA EFFUSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 29344457623     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00512_3.x     Document Type: Letter

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