Isolated right ventricular stress-induced ("Tako-Tsubo") cardiomyopathy

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 617-619

  Burgdorf, Christof ^a   Hunold, Peter ^a   Radke, Peter W ^a   Schunkert, Heribert ^a   Kurowski, Volkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; NORADRENALIN; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; BLOOD GAS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISOLATED RIGHT VENTRICULAR STRESS; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80051787179     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-011-0293-4     Document Type: Letter

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