Acute coronary syndrome or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: The suspect may not always be the culprit

Int J Cardiol. 2015:187:116-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.03.255. Epub 2015 Mar 18.

Authors

L Christian Napp¹, Jelena R Ghadri², Johann Bauersachs³, Christian Templin²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. Electronic address: napp.christian@mh-hannover.de.
² Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

PMID: 25828328
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.03.255

No abstract available

Keywords: Acute coronary syndrome; Coronary artery disease; Regional wall motion abnormality; Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter
Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

Acute Coronary Syndrome / diagnosis*
Acute Coronary Syndrome / physiopathology
Acute Coronary Syndrome / surgery
Coronary Angiography
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography
Electrocardiography*
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / methods*
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / diagnosis*
Ventricular Function, Left / physiology