Alterations in Cardiac Deformation, Timing of Contraction and Relaxation, and Early Myocardial Fibrosis Accompany the Apparent Recovery of Acute Stress-Induced (Takotsubo) Cardiomyopathy: An End to the Concept of Transience

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 745-755

  Schwarz, Konstantin ^a   Ahearn, Trevor ^a   Srinivasan, Janaki ^a   Neil, Christopher J ^a   Scally, Caroline ^a   Rudd, Amelia ^a   Jagpal, Baljit ^a   Frenneaux, Michael P ^a   Pislaru, Cristina ^b   Horowitz, John D ^c   Dawson, Dana K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Broken heart syndrome; Echocardiography; Fibrosis; Strain; Stress cardiomyopathy; T1 mapping; Takotsubo; Twist

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE RELAXATION; HEART VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SYSTOLE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; ACUTE DISEASE; CARDIAC MUSCLE; CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TIC PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE VOLUME; SYSTOLE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR PRESSURE;

EID: 85020202852     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2017.03.016     Document Type: Article

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