Diffuse, marked, reversible impairment in coronary microcirculation in stress cardiomyopathy: A Doppler transthoracic echo study

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 462-470

  Rigo, Fausto ^a   Sicari, Rosa ^b   Citro, Rodolfo ^c   Ossena, Giovanni ^a   Buja, Paolo ^a   Picano, Eugenio ^b  

^a Umberto I Hospital   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c Hospital Vallo della Lucania   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coronary flow reserve; Tako tsubo cardiomyopathy; Vasodilator stress testing

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; FEMALE; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 70350510458     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 13652060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07853890903022793     Document Type: Article

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