Left ventricular ballooning syndrome due to vasospasm of the middle portion of the left anterior descending coronary artery

Cardiology Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 314-316

  Fiol, Miguel ^a   Carrillo, Andrés ^a   Rodriguez, Alberto ^a   Herrero, Jaime ^a   García Niebla, Javier ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

^b Valle del Golfo Health Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

Left ventricular ballooning syndrome; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DILTIAZEM; ENALAPRIL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; SIMVASTATIN; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AKINESIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; Q WAVE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; T WAVE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VASOSPASM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84861984522     PISSN: 18975593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5603/CJ.2012.0055     Document Type: Article

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