Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: How stress can mimic acute coronary occlusion

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 357-360

  Abdulla, Irfan ^a   Ward, Michael R ^b  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; REVIEW; STRESS;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; STRESS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 35348823564     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01281.x     Document Type: Article

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