The "Takotsubo Syndrome": From Legend to Science

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bossone, Eduardo ^a,b   Erbel, Raimund ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AKINESIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; EXOME; GENDER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; JAPAN; LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; MOOD DISORDER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; RACE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

HUMANS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84876725672     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2013.01.001     Document Type: Editorial

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