Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Definition and Clinical Profile

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 111-122

  Summers, Matthew R ^a   Prasad, Abhiram ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical ballooning syndrome; Stress cardiomyopathy; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CATECHOLAMINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ESTRADIOL; TROPONIN; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AKINESIA; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ASTHMA; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG ABUSE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOKINESIA; INFECTION; NATURAL DISASTER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84876697078     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2012.12.007     Document Type: Review

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