Clinical characteristics, sex hormones, and long-term follow-up in Swiss postmenopausal women presenting with takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 340-347

  Brenner, Roman ^b   Weilenmann, Daniel ^a   Maeder, Micha T ^a   Jörg, Lucas ^a   Bluzaite, Ina ^c   Rickli, Hans ^a   De Pasquale, Gabriella ^a   Ammann, Peter ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b Private University Liechtenstein   (Liechtenstein)

^c LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONG TERM CARE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; Q WAVE; QT INTERVAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RR INTERVAL; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84862211712     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.21986     Document Type: Article

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