Appropriate implementation of echocardiography in Takotsubo syndrome: Earlier and more frequently

Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1123-1125

  Madias, John E ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AKINESIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84887009534     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/echo.12344     Document Type: Editorial

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