Transient left ventricular apical ballooning after cocaine use: Is catecholamine cardiotoxicity the pathologic link?

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 829-832

  Arora, Sandeep ^a   Alfayoumi, Fadi ^a   Srinivasan, Venkatraman ^b  

^a WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMI = acute myocardial infarction; ECG = electrocardiography; LAD = left anterior descending; LVAB = left ventricular apical ballooning; LVEF = left ventricular ejection fraction

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; HEART ENZYME; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BROKEN HEART SYNDROME; CARDIOTOXICITY; CASE REPORT; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE APICAL BALLOONING; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTOLE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 33744805335     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/81.6.829     Document Type: Article

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