Tako-Tsubo syndrome: A cardioembolic cause of brain infarction

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-310

  Jabiri, M Z ^a   Mazighi, M ^a,b   Meimoun, P ^c   Amarenco, Pierre ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; MYOGLOBIN; TROPONIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEMIPLEGIA; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QT PROLONGATION; SINUS RHYTHM; STRESS; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 75149163399     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000278698     Document Type: Article

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