Transient biventricular apical ballooning: A unique presentation of the "broken heart"

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 355-358

  Novak, Gregg ^a   Kross, Kimberly ^a   Follmer, Kristy ^a   Brofferio, Alessandra ^a   Shirani, Jamshid ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Biventricular dysfunction; Broken heart; Takotsubo syndrome; Transient ventricular ballooning

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIURETIC AGENT; METOPROLOL; MORPHINE; OXYGEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; REMISSION; SYMPTOM; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSIENT BIVENTRICULAR APICAL BALLOONING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 34547183370     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20065     Document Type: Article

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