To the Editor: I read with great interest the article by Ueyama et al in the Circulation Journal1 in which they demonstrated that emotional stress with immobilization in the rat induced reversible left ventricular apical ballooning that was normalized by pretreatment with adrenoceptor blockade. They had previously demonstrated the same stress-induced ST segment elevation, which returned to pre ...

Bordachar P, Deplagne A, Chabaneix J, Franceschi F, Deharo JC, Dos Santos P, Clementy J, Roudaut R, Leclercq C, Habib G. Validation of an echocardiographic multiparametric strategy to increase responder patients after cardiac resynchronization: a multicentre study. Eur Heart J 2009;30:2880–2887. First published on 9 January 2009. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn582. 8. Abraham WT, Fisher WG, Smith AL,...

Prispevek obravnava spremembo i > r (.rotacizem-) v juinoslovanskih jezikih. Zaradi zapletene razvrstitve spremembe tako po jezikovni geografiji kot po besednih vrstah se zdi, da se je ne da razloiiti z enim samim vzrokom. Ugotovlja se namret, da je sprememba nastala zaradi vrste glasoslovnih in analognih vzrokov; umikanje inovacije proti zahodu pa so otitno povzrotili sociolingvistitni dejavniki.

apical ballooning syndrome (abs) is a reversible cardiomyopathy with presentation mimicking an acute coronary syndrome. so in clinical practice, it is essential to consider it in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with chest pain, especially in postmenopausal women. coronary angiography is usually indicated to achieve a proper diagnosis. typically, patients do not have significan...