Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Overview

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 249-266

  Bossone, Eduardo ^a,b   Savarese, Gianluigi ^c   Ferrara, Francesco ^b,c   Citro, Rodolfo ^b   Mosca, Susanna ^c   Musella, Francesca ^c   Limongelli, Giuseppe ^d   Manfredini, Roberto ^e   Cittadini, Antonio ^c   Perrone Filardi, Pasquale ^c  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apical ballooning; Stress cardiomyopathy; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ABUSE; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANXIETY DISORDER; AORTA DISSECTION; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG ABUSE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAINTNESS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; RHYTHM; SEPSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SUMMER; T WAVE INVERSION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX PAIN;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84876719685     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2012.12.015     Document Type: Review

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