Takotsubo cardiomyopathy does recurrence tend to occur in a previously unaffected ventricular wall region

Circulation

Volumn 129, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Xu, Bo ^a   Williams, Paul D ^b   Brown, Michael ^c   MacIsaac, Andrew ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; RADIONUCLIDE VENTRICULOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84894387993     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.007015     Document Type: Note

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