Transient left ventricular apical ballooning: A unifying pathophysiologic theory at the edge of prinzmetal angina

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 342-352

  Angelini, Paolo ^a,b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angina; Left ventricular apical ballooning; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ARGININE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DILTIAZEM; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; ISOSORBIDE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NIFEDIPINE; NITRATE; PACLITAXEL; RETEPLASE; SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSKINESIA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRINZMETAL ANGINA PECTORIS; RESTENOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYNCOPE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; VASOSPASM;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS, VARIANT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 41149141472     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21338     Document Type: Article

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