Coronary artery vasospasm or true transient left ventricular apical ballooning? Differentiation by nuclear imaging

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-603

  Burgdorf, Christof ^a   Bonnemeier, Hendrik ^a   von Hof, Katharina ^b   Schunkert, Heribert ^a   Kurowski, Volkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; IODINE 123; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TROPONIN T; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VITAL SIGN;

ADULT; CORONARY VASOSPASM; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 47949121560     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2008.02.032     Document Type: Article

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