“Reverse McConnell's sign”: Interpreting interventricular hemodynamic dependency and guiding the management of acute heart failure during takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 33-40

  Liu, Kan ^a   Sun, Zhongxia ^b   Wei, Tiemin ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute heart failure; Cardiogenic shock; Interventricular dependency; Reverse McConnell s sign; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; DIURETIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FILLING PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVERSE MCCONNELL SIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84925967941     PISSN: 11795468     EISSN: 11795468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CMC.S18756     Document Type: Article

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