Echocardiographic assessment of regional left ventricular wall motion abnormalities in patients with tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: Comparison with anterior myocardial infarction

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 542-549

  Citro, Rodolfo ^a   Rigo, Fausto ^b   Ciampi, Quirino ^c   D'Andrea, Antonello ^d   Provenza, Gennaro ^a   Mirra, Marco ^a   Giudice, Roberta ^a   Silvestri, Francesco ^a   Di Benedetto, Giuseppe ^a   Bossone, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Umberto I   (Italy)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Second University of Naoles   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apical ballooning syndrome; Myocardial infarction; Stress cardiomyopathy; Tako tsubo syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 80051984089     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jer059     Document Type: Article

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