Epilepsy and takotsubo cardiomyopathy: A case report

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 2397-2399

  Naganuma, Masaki ^a   Isoda, Kazuya ^a   Ishizaki, Masatoshi ^a   Ito, Kiyotaka ^a   Hirano, Teruyuki ^b   Uchino, Makoto ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Insular cortex; SPECT; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; T WAVE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TONIC SEIZURE; WHITE MATTER;

EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 80054759815     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.5705     Document Type: Article

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