Recurrent apical ballooning syndrome "the masquerading acute cardiac syndrome"

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gogas, Bill D ^a   Antoniadis, Aias G ^a   Zacharoulis, Achilleas A ^a   Kolokathis, Fotios ^a   Lekakis, John ^a   Kremastinos, Dimitrios T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apical balooning syndrome; Late recurrence; Reversible cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DILTIAZEM; LORAZEPAM; RAMIPRIL; SIMVASTATIN; TROPONIN;

AGED; AKINESIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; VASOSPASM;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 79960066930     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2009.07.038     Document Type: Article

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