Transient left ventricular apical ballooning syndrome (Takotsubo cardiomyopathy) following orthotopic liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1343-1345

  Lee, Howard R ^a   Hurst, Robert Todd ^a   Vargas, Hugo E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; TROPONIN;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THROMBECTOMY; TRANSIENT LEFT VENTRICULAR APICAL BALLOONING SYNDROME;

AGED; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SYNDROME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34648831379     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21169     Document Type: Article

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