Left ventricular contraction patterns in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome and normal coronary angiograms: A new look at the takotsubo syndrome

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-50

  Paixao, Andre R M ^a   Balaji, Nicholas ^a   Ryzhikov, Alex ^a   Ghafourian, Kambiz ^a   Collins, Sara ^a   Suddath, William O ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a   Lindsay, Joseph ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTMENOPAUSE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79251524202     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20833     Document Type: Article

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