Classical apical ballooning with significant stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery: is cardiac magnetic resonance imaging the solution for this diagnostic dilemma?

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 632-635

  Möller, Christian ^a   Graf, Tobias ^a   Stiermaier, Thomas ^a   Thiele, Holger ^a   Eitel, Ingo ^a  

^a University Heart Center Lübeck   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; GADOLINIUM; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CASE REPORT; COLLAPSE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HEART EDEMA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; HYPERKINESIA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT VENTRICULAR APEX; LETTER; LEVOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VENTRICULAR WALL MOTION ABNORMALITY; VERTIGO; VERY ELDERLY; WEAKNESS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84959091401     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-016-0974-0     Document Type: Letter

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