Stress-induced takotsubo cardiomyopathy in survivors of the 2011 queensland floods

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 109-110

  Butterly, Stuart J ^a,b   Indrajith, Mathivathana ^a,b   Garrahy, Paul ^a   Ng, Arnold C T ^a,b   Gould, Paul A ^a,b   Wang, William Y S ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; OXYGEN; RAIN; TROPONIN I;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FLOODING; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; SURVIVOR; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; DISASTERS; FEMALE; FLOODS; HUMANS; QUEENSLAND; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84874615194     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.11620     Document Type: Article

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