Vulnerable personality and takotsubo cardiomyopathy consequent to emotional stressful events: A clinical case report

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Cardiac Series

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-103

  Compare, Angelo ^a   Proietti, Riccardo ^c   Del Forno, Domenico ^b   Vitelli, Alessandra ^b   Grieco, Alessandra ^b   Maresca, Luigi ^b   Giallauria, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotional regulation; Emotional trigger; Personality traits; Stressful event; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RISK; SINUS RHYTHM; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VITAL SIGN; VULNERABLE PERSONALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL REGULATION QUESTIONNAIRE; FOLLOW UP; LIFE STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PAYKEL LIFE STRESS EVENT SCALE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 81155130485     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2011.197     Document Type: Article

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