Broken Heart or Takotsubo Syndrome: Support for the neurohumoral hypothesis of stress cardiomyopathy

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 247-249

  Soares Filho, Gastão L ^a,b   Felix, Renata C ^a   Azevedo, Jader C ^a   Mesquita, Cláudio T ^a   Mesquita, Evandro T ^a,c   Valença, Alexandre M ^b,c   Nardi, Antonio E ^b  

^a Pro Cardiaco Hospital   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; ADRENALIN; TROPONIN I;

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; AGED; AKINESIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

3-IODOBENZYLGUANIDINE; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 73649131916     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.10.013     Document Type: Letter

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