Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7756, 2010, Pages 1095-1096

  Banning, A P ^a   Cuculi, F ^a   Lim, C C S ^a  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LEVOSIMENDAN; TROPONIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA BALLOON; ATHEROMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEAD INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MENTAL STRESS; MYOCARDITIS; OCTOPUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QT PROLONGATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

ANGINA PECTORIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 77953920790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1272     Document Type: Editorial

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