Evidence for brain activation in patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Circulation Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 256-258

  Suzuki, Hideaki ^a   Matsumoto, Yasuharu ^a   Kaneta, Tomohiro ^b   Sugimura, Koichiro ^a   Takahashi, Jun ^a   Fukumoto, Yoshihiro ^c   Takahashi, Shoki ^b   Shimokawa, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; SPECT; Stress; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ACTIVATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84891082223     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-13-1276     Document Type: Article

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