Broken heart or takotsubo syndrome: support for the neurohumoral hypothesis of stress cardiomyopathy

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Feb 1;34(1):247-9. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.10.013. Epub 2009 Oct 24.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • 3-Iodobenzylguanidine
  • Aged
  • Echocardiography / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Perfusion Imaging / methods
  • Radiography
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / diagnostic imaging*
  • Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / pathology
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging*
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / pathology

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • 3-Iodobenzylguanidine