Invited editorial: The tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy syndrome: Lumpers or splitters?

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 402-403

  Maseri, Attilio ^a  

^a Heart Care Foundation   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSKINESIA; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; Q WAVE; RESUSCITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SYNDROME; T WAVE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CARDIOLOGY; HUMANS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 77951793946     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e32833664aa     Document Type: Editorial

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