Whether you called it apical ballooning syndrome or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, it is due to coronary artery spasm with or without underlying atherosclerosis

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 717-

  Cheng, Tsung O ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

ABBREVIATIONS AS TOPIC; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VASOSPASM; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 65549140858     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21933     Document Type: Letter

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