Quantitative comparison of microcirculatory dysfunction in patients with stress cardiomyopathy and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 58, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 2430-2431

  Kim, Hyun Sook ^b   Tremmel, Jennifer A ^b   Nam, Chang Wook ^b   Zhou, Jessica ^b   Haddad, Francois ^b   Vagelos, Randall H ^b   Lee, David P ^b   Yeung, Alan C ^b   Fearon, William F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; INDEX OF MICROCIRCULATORY RESISTANCE; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LETTER; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 81855225266     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.08.046     Document Type: Letter

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