Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: A rare, but serious, complication of epileptic seizures;Cardiomiopatia de Takotsubo: Uma complicação rara, mas grave, de crises epilépticas

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 195-197

  Rocha, João ^a   Gonçalves, Elsa ^b   Vieira, Catarina ^a   Almeida, Fátima ^a   Pereira, João ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

^b Internal Medicine Department of Hospital de Santa Maria Maior   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; PHENYTOIN; RAMIPRIL; TROPONIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEIZURE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875711863     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2013000300014     Document Type: Article

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