Transient left ventricular apical ballooning developing after the central niigata prefecture earthquake: Two case reports

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 153-158

  Tagawa, Minoru ^a,d   Nakamura, Yuichi ^a   Ishiguro, Maki ^a   Satoh, Kazunori ^b   Chinushi, Masaomi ^c   Kodama, Makoto ^c   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^c  

^a Departments of Cardiology   (Japan)

^b Nagaoka Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d Nagaoka Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathies; Electrocardiography; Emotional); Other (takotsubo; Stress (earthquakes; Transient left ventricular apical ballooning)

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISASTER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MENTAL STRESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; NATURAL DISASTERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 39049174514     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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