Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and microcirculatory dysfunction
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Microvascular Dysfunction in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC), also called stress cardiomyopathy, apical ballooning syndrome or broken heart syndrome, is a syndrome characterized by transient regional systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle (LV), mimicking myocardial infarction (MI), but in the absence of evidence of angiographic significant obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) or acute plaque rupture. In most cases o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Cardiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1759-5002,1759-5010
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2015.88