Direct comparison of takotsubo cardiomyopathy between Japan and USA: 3-year follow-up study

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 257-262

  Maekawa, Yuichiro ^a   Kawamura, Akio ^a   Yuasa, Shinsuke ^a   Nesto, Richard W ^b   Fukuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiomyopathies; Coronary artery disease; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATINE KINASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; STATIN; WARFARIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856565354     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6559     Document Type: Article

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