Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: A review of the literature

Current Cardiology Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-142

  Dorfman, Todd A ^a   Aqel, Raed ^a   Mayhew, Marc ^a   Iskandrian, Ami E ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; Transient left ventricular apical ballooning

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE RECEPTOR; CREATINE KINASE MB; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; PHENYLEPHRINE; TROPONIN;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DRUG OVERDOSE; DYSKINESIA; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34249321630     PISSN: 1573403X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340307780618352     Document Type: Review

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