Consequences of misdiagnosis and mismanagement of takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 117-119

  Vyas, Chirayu ^a   Shah, Sanjay ^a   Pancholy, Sameer ^b   Patel, Tejas ^a,c   Moussa, Isam ^d  

^a VS Hospital   (India)

^b Geisinger Health Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine   (United States)

^c TOTAL   (France)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute anterior wall myocardial infarction; Cardiogenic shock; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; INOTROPIC AGENT; METOPROLOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MURMUR; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METOPROLOL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPATHOLYTICS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84870952208     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482941.2012.735674     Document Type: Article

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