Atypical (mid-ventricular) Takotsubo syndrome in a survival of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation: Cause or consequence?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gasparetto, Nicola ^a   Zorzi, Alessandro ^a   Perazzolo Marra, Martina ^a   Migliore, Federico ^a   Napodano, Massimo ^a   Corrado, Domenico ^a   Iliceto, Sabino ^a   Cacciavillani, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Cardiac arrest; Sudden cardiac death; Takotsubo syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATYPICAL TAKOTSUBO SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVERSION; CHOLELITHIASIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEART ARREST; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EDEMA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LETTER; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVAL; T WAVE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSMURAL MYOCARDIAL EDEMA; ULTRASOUND; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SURVIVOR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; SURVIVORS; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 84894039136     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.064     Document Type: Article

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