Simple and Accurate Electrocardiographic Criteria to Differentiate Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy From Anterior Acute Myocardial Infarction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 55, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2514-2516

  Kosuge, Masami ^a   Ebina, Toshiaki ^a   Hibi, Kiyoshi ^a   Morita, Satoshi ^a   Okuda, Jun ^a   Iwahashi, Noriaki ^a   Tsukahara, Kengo ^a   Nakachi, Tatsuya ^a   Kiyokuni, Masayoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Umemura, Satoshi ^a   Kimura, Kazuo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

AGED; ANTERIOR WALL MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 77952538341     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.12.059     Document Type: Letter

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