A big man with a broken heart: Stress-induced cardiomyopathy in a morbidly obese man

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 864-865

  Zhou, Jessica Q ^a   Haddad, Francois ^a   Tremmel, Jennifer A ^a   Spin, Joshua M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARVEDILOL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; LISINOPRIL; TESTOSTERONE; TROPONIN;

ADULT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MALE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ZYGOMA; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORBID OBESITY;

ESTRONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77956386940     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/mcp.2010.0276     Document Type: Letter

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