Prevalence and signal characteristics of late gadolinium enhancement on contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Circulation Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 914-921

  Nakamori, Shiro ^a   Matsuoka, Koji ^a   Onishi, Katsuya ^b   Kurita, Tairo ^a   Ichikawa, Yasutaka ^a   Nakajima, Hiroshi ^b   Ishida, Masaki ^b   Kitagawa, Kakuya ^b   Tanigawa, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Tomoaki ^a   Ito, Masaaki ^b   Sakuma, Hajime ^b  

^a Matsusaka Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac magnetic resonance; Late gadolinium enhancement; Myocardial edema; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy; Wall motion

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; GADOLINIUM; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EDEMA; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QT INTERVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; EDEMA, CARDIAC; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84858952618     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-1043     Document Type: Article

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